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“An employee who has suffered a heart attack has enough to deal with without having to face unlawful discrimination and unemployment.”
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Continuing yesterday’s HR Compliance 101 theme, I revisited the EEOC Newsroom and found a recent release that addresses some considerations for when you have an employee that needs leave from work to treat for an illness.
Today’s lesson is a pragmatic and compassionate approach to providing accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Alcoholism and the ADA: Is it a disability? If so, how do you accommodate? And what are the limits?
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Did you miss yesterday’s #NextChat on Managing the Challenges of Leave Under the FMLA and ADA?
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Don’t worry about it. Continue reading
#Nextchat: My Employees Can Miss How Much Work?! Managing the Challenges of Leave Under the FMLA and ADA #SHRM19
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Last night, after the big Sixers win over the Raptors, I checked out the EEOC Newsroom to hunt for blog fodder for today.
That’s when I noticed that four of the five most recent EEOC press releases addressed claims of disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Continue reading
The readers have three follow-up ADA questions about job applications. Let’s answer them.
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On Wednesday, I blogged, “If your job applications look anything like this, well, damn, you’ve got some ADA problems.”
“This” was a medical questionnaire that inquired about certain medical conditions, whether the employee had an impairment or disability, and whether the employee had previous surgery or received a permanent disability rating.
In other words, questions that were designed to elicit information about whether an individual has a disability.
Not surprisingly, readers asked some good follow-up questions about related ADA issues; stuff that wasn’t part of the low-hanging fruit that the EEOC plucked when it sued the employer with the bad medical questionnaire.
For everyone’s benefit, let’s address those questions today. Continue reading
If your job applications look anything like this, well, damn, you’ve got some ADA problems.
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I remember once I had a colleague asked me to review an addendum to a job application for a client to make sure it was all good and legal.
It wasn’t.
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Does an employee have an ADA ‘disability’ if it substantially limits the major life activity of ‘working’?
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Ever since the amendments to the Americans with Disability Act took effect in 2009, management-side employment lawyers have preached to clients that they should focus more on accommodating a disability rather than whether an employee has a disability in the first place.
But, what if you have an employee who seeks an accommodation — time off — for a condition that she claims impacts her ability to work?
285,000 reasons that your company president shouldn’t ridicule an employee with a disability. Especially not in email.
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Some may even consider Sybil to be ‘crazy.’
Or at least someone with a mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities a/k/a a disability. Continue reading