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The Burr Broadcast Aug. 2023: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Supreme Court Miniseries: Religious Accommodation at Work
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DE Under 3: Diving into DEAMcon23 – Accommodations, DEIB, Disability & More
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The Burr Morning Show April 2023 - The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
On July 1, 2024, in Huber v. Westar Foods, Inc., in a 2–1 decision, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the “honest belief” defense recognized by the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Circuits (and U.S....more
When advising employers about the legal risks associated with a business reorganization, we generally advise that discrimination claims are less likely when a company closes an entire facility or department as compared to...more
ATM Service Provider Resolves Federal Lawsuit Charging That It Failed to Accommodate And Fired Employee Because of Disability - HOUSTON – Cash Depot, LTD, a privately owned, independent ATM service provider headquartered...more
Federal Agency Charges Home Health Care Company With Firing Therapist with Seizure Disorder Because She Could Not Drive - DETROIT – Providers of home health care services Alternate Solutions Health Network, LLC (ASHN), and...more
Key Takeaways - Resolved medical conditions and COVID-19 symptoms — aside from “Long COVID” — may not be considered “disabilities” under the ADA. A seven-week period between employee engagement in protected activity and an...more
Settles Federal Agency Charges Pizza Chain Failed to Accommodate and Fired Blind Employee Because of Disability - ATLANTA – Papa John’s Pizza, an international chain of pizza restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, will...more
Settles Federal Charges Employee Was Subjected to N-Word, Did Not Accommodate Her Disability, and Then Fired Her - GREENVILLE, S.C. – Georgia-based Community Loans of America, Inc. and its subsidiary, Carolina Title Loans,...more
Settles Federal Charges Hospital Failed to Transfer Injured Nurse to a Vacant Job She Could Perform, and Terminated Her Instead - INDIANAPOLIS – Munster Medical Research Foundation, Inc., doing business as Community...more
Many employers have experienced an increase in employee requests for accommodations in the past few years. A federal jury’s recent award in Lisa Menninger v. PPD Development L.P. reminds employers that accommodation requests,...more
Here is what we cover in this issue of The Employment Law Reporter: •The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 affords a faculty member a private right of...more
Summary Shortly after requesting an accommodation for his disability, an employee was terminated for violating company policy. But because the policy at issue was vague, ever-evolving, and inconsistently enforced, the Utah...more
In Buckmaster v. The National Railroad Passenger Corp. d/b/a Amtrak, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland addressed whether an employee had offered any evidence of discrimination or retaliation beyond his own...more
There was this disability discrimination issue . . . An employer who shall remain nameless had a tradition of throwing a little birthday party for each of its employees on their special day. The birthday of one employee...more
On September 15, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a startling and ominous opinion construing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in a manner which employers should take heed. In a...more
Auto Recycler Fired Employee During Treatment for Cancer After Denying Her Requests for Accommodation, Federal Agency Charged - DALLAS – Tyler, Texas-based K&L Auto Crushers will pay $90,000 and furnish other relief to...more
An employee who is categorically unable to comply with an employer’s valid workplace safety requirement is not a “qualified” individual under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), even if the safety requirement is not...more
The Tenth Circuit recently held that a disabled employee was not required to show that she suffered a separate adverse employment action to establish a failure to accommodate claim under the American’s with Disabilities Act...more
The rise in opioid use and addiction in the United States has raised complicated issues for employers. On August 5, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) addressed some of these issues by issuing...more
As workplaces begin reopening in the coming weeks, attorneys are predicting a rash of lawsuits by employees against their employers related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems clear that workers-compensation preemption may...more
Company Fired Certified Rigger Due to Epilepsy, Federal Agency Charged - SEATTLE - A Bellingham, Wash.-based company formerly doing business as Diamond B Constructors, Inc. and its successor, Harris Companies, will pay...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In Flaherty v. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., ___ F.3d ___, No. 18-1759, 2019 WL 7046367, at *1 (1st Cir. Dec. 23, 2019), the First Circuit struck a terminated nuclear plant security officer’s...more
In this episode, Meghan Meade discusses employer obligations towards disabled employees in light of New Jersey's recent amendments to the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, finishing off with a brief update on what's...more
The New Jersey Supreme Court announced it will review the Appellate Division’s decision in Wild v. Carriage Funeral Holdings, Inc., which extended protections under the New Jersey Law against Discrimination (NJLAD) to medical...more
Ever since the use of properly prescribed medical marijuana became legal in New Jersey, Courts have grappled with reconciling state and federal laws protecting employees from disability discrimination, and employers’ rights...more
Communication Company's Inflexible Leave and Attendance Policies Deny Employees Reasonable Accommodations, Federal Agency Charges - HONOLULU, Hawaii - Oceanic Time Warner Cable LLC, doing business as Spectrum, violated...more