Image by mcmurryjulie from Pixabay Every once in a while, a different client calls me with the same Americans with Disabilities Act question, “Eric, our employee tells us that she has a disability and needs and accommodation. Can we ask for medical documentation to help us evaluate whether an accommodation…
Image by CryptoSkylark from Pixabay Let’s say that you have an employee prone to angry outbursts. Sound familiar? But, what if those outbursts were a symptom of something like bipolar disorder? And let’s say that the employee can control his anger if he takes medicine and short breaks. The Americans…
Photo by Tayeb MEZAHDIA from Pexels *And by ‘top secret, classified, confidential,’ I mean readily available from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s publicly accessible website (here). And also, here and here. Or, you can just keep reading, because I’ve cut and pasted some of two of the five priorities…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Technically, they settled for $1.15M. But, that won’t stop me from playing some ‘Lil Wayne. Many of you have good taste in employment law blogs, my ramblings and typos notwithstanding. That’s because you also read Jon Hyman’s Ohio Employer Law Blog. Jon’s blog is a…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e4c9a4e089f7a2b888b45b4) And I want to try “The Perfect Bite” that Binging With Babish cooked up last week on his YouTube channel. Here is what his duck carbonara looked like. But, Governor Murphy’s proposed changes to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) aren’t nearly as aspirational. And if…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e41ee23089f7ab90a8b4591) It was all a dream. I used to read Word Up! magazine. Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine. I guess Notorious B.I.G. wasn’t exactly rapping about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requirement for employers with one hundred or more employees to file with the…
Image by Jim Gade from Pixabay Nearly three years ago to the day, I provided 55,000 reasons to allow your pregnant employees to be exposed to toxic chemicals at work. Wait, what? If a pregnant woman needs to use poisonous lacquer thinners… The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued…
Photo by Black ice from Pexels It’s one of the most common questions that I get from clients and readers. With so many employment laws out there, it’s not easy to keep track of what those laws say — let alone which ones you may have to follow. That’s why…
By National Museum of American History – Image by Godot13, Public Domain, Link Workplace accommodations can be easy. For example, when an employee with carpal tunnel syndrome requests an ergonomic keyboard to perform his job, and his job involves a lot of typing, you get him the keyboard. Or maybe…
https://www.needpix.com/photo/180045/question-worry-wonder-unsure-confused-uncertain-asking-wondering-uncertainty Beats me. (Still, it seems like an excellent excuse to get back to basics and explain how courts analyze discrimination claims). But, first, let’s cue the music as we talk about… Those Wild School Days. The plaintiff in today’s case was an assistant professor of poetry at a college…