When Congress enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act, which went into effect on January 1, 2009, it indicated that one of its purposes was to “convey that the question of whether an individual’s impairment is a disability under the ADA should not demand extensive analysis.” I vaguely recall…
On Monday, it was public urination. Yesterday, we had indecent proposals. And today, the blogging gods, in which I hold a sincerely-held belief, serve me up this federal court opinion about an alcoholic named David Crosby — not that David Crosby, but still — who sued his former employer…
I’m pretty sure Larry David had this written into the Seinfeld Parking Garage episode before making a last-minute script change to uromysitis. I would have stuck with the former. But, Mr. David is a comedic genius and I just write this crappy blog. How bad is this blog, you ask?…
Let’s say that you have an employee whom the Americans with Disabilities Act would consider disabled and to whom you have afforded a reasonable accommodation for a long time. Maybe it’s a few years of light duty to accommodate your employee’s bad back. Maybe it’s keeping your employee with medically-documented…
That’s how I start my next oral argument when defending a claim made under the Americans with Disabilities that one of my employer clients regarded an overweight plaintiff as disabled. So, who wants some of what I’m drinking today? Hey, it’s peppermint tea, jerk! And I’m not pulling this blog…
Let’s assume that you run a factory in which employees are scheduled on one of two shifts: (1) 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM; or (2) 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM. One of your employees comes to you with a doctor’s note which states that working the graveyard shift will cause…
That’s right folks. It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” Let’s assume that your employee breaks his leg. Doctors tell your employee that he won’t walk normally for seven months.…
Sorry, Aquaman. You’re SOL, son. But Aquaman does love to get down to MGMT, I’m told. So here you go… Same goes for the plaintiff in this case — the telepathy part, not MGMT — in which the employer had a leave policy which dictated that employees may take up to six…
Ah, it was a good year at the ole Handbook. Total web traffic was up over fifty percent from 2012. And average time per visit was down over 20%, which is fine by me. I pad my important stats, while discouraging loitering. And we got our first visitor from Uzbekistan.…
Let’s talk (alleged) big butts and discrimination after the jump… (Sir Mix-a-Lot is gonna be feelin’ this post). * * * Hey yo! Find me another employment-law blogger spinning Sir Mix-a-Lot. Yeah, that’s what I thought. So, show me some love, take a few seconds, and vote for The Employer Handbook…