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The Employer Handbook BlogHow long do your employees have to sue you for discrimination?
Perhaps you’ve gotten here because you’ve Googled ‘How long do I have to sue my employer for discrimination?”
Either way, let’s discuss. Continue reading
Articles Posted in Disability
Did disability bias motivate HR to fire an employee for sleepwalking into a colleague’s hotel bed?
Imagine getting the call sometime past midnight at an out-of-town national sales conference that you need to immediately investigate a complaint from an employee who says that his female co-worker has sleepwalked into a bed in his hotel room.
That wasn’t on the SHRM-CP exam. Then again, no one forced you to become a Human Resources professional.
At least you’ll have another good story for the next cocktail hour.
How to fire an employee right after his FMLA expires . . . and win the retaliation lawsuit.
Hey, don’t judge me. You’re just as heartless reading this as I am writing it.
By the time she made it to court, her discrimination and retaliation claims were D.O.A.
An individual who wants to bring federal disability discrimination and retaliation claims against an employer can’t just go right to court. No, courts would choke with employment lawsuits.
Instead, she must first exhaust her administrative remedies at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by filing a charge of discrimination. But there’s a little more to it than that. Continue reading
The ADA cheat sheet for accommodating disabilities of seasonal employees and interns
The muse for today’s post is whoever drafts the press releases for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Continue reading
Could your business require medical exams for all workers returning from extended leave?
Some of you are clutching your pearls and mouthing, “God, I hope so.” Continue reading
Here’s when you may have to accommodate an employee’s use of CBD
A few weeks ago, I blogged about a situation involving an employee who used CBD products and tested positive for marijuana at work. She claimed that the employer took into account her underlying disability when it terminated her employment and violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. The employer countered that it did know she was disabled. So, the employer won.
But, now, let’s change the facts. Continue reading
These free resources can help you avoid disability discrimination claims when hiring using artificial intelligence
More employers now are using software, algorithms, and artificial intelligence to make smarter hiring decisions. There’s nothing inherently unlawful about that.
Except, consider this. Continue reading
Man missed deadline to file disability discrimination lawsuit by about 40 years. FORTY!!!
His claims were so old that they predate the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Let’s see how his ADA lawsuit turned out.
(Spoiler alert: Not well). Continue reading