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The Employer Handbook BlogYo, dawg! EEOC sues employer over not letting trucker use his service animal for work
But, will the EEOC’s bark be louder than its bite?
I’ll discuss service animals and Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations after the jump…
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How about we connect at the SHRM Employment Law & Legislative Conference?
Are you headed to Washington, DC for SHRM’s 2017 Employment Law and Legislative Conference on March 13-15? I’d love to meet up with you.
Well, unless you’re really creepy. Continue reading
110,000 reasons to remember that the ADA’s duty to accommodate starts before saying, “You’re hired.”
Here’s a snippet from a recent EEOC press release:
The [Americans with Disabilities Act] protects employees from discrimination based on their disabilities and requires employers to make reasonable accommodations to employees’ and applicants’ disabilities as long as it does not pose an undue hardship.
That’s employees and applicants. And, that’s important.
Wherein, I marvel at the majesty of #F8. And something about the Americans with Disabilities Act too.
With over 24 hours to marinate, I think back on Super Bowl LI and I’m still amazed.
I mean, how good does The Fate of the Furious look! Pretty sure there was a submarine chasing an orange Lamborghini on a frozen tundra! Yeah, now I know what Charlie Sheen truly meant by “Winning!”
Look, my betting days (largely derivative of my Vegas card-counting past) are behind me. But, while I’m here to dispense non-legal employment-law advice — we’ll get to that in a sec — I can give you a little non-gambling wagering advice too. If I had a spare sawbuck, I’d plunk it down on a parlay of Jason Statham for Best Supporting Actor and The Rock/Vin Diesel (tie) splitting the Best Actor award at the 2018 Oscars. Just sayin’.
And, here you probably thought that your Respect Cup for me couldn’t runneth over.
Appellate court to ADA plaintiff: “A blind person cannot be an airline pilot…”
Continuing with yesterday’s theme of appellate courts peeing on the Cheerios of plaintiffs in failure-to-accommodate cases…
Wait, can I say that?
***Checks blogging scriptures***
***burps***
Yep.
I wonder how Trump’s nominee, Neil Gorsuch, might decide a SCOTUS leave-accommodation ADA case.
I hear many of you are dying for my hot take on how Tenth Circuit Judge Neil M. Gorsuch may shape employment law as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Then again, those could be the voices in my head.
***Q-tips***
Ah, that’s better. Where was I? Oh yes, happy Groundhog Day.
Go ahead and bookmark this post for top FMLA cases of 2017
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its first precedential decision confirming that the honest-belief doctrine defeats a retaliation claim under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
In plain English, the court in Capps v. Mondelez Global, LLC concluded that an employer can fire an employee whom it truly believes is misusing FMLA — even if the employer’s suspicion of FMLA fraud turns out to be wrong. That’s not FMLA retaliation.
Sowing plutonium from diet scrapple — just twice a year — can be an ADA essential function.
When it comes to working for me as a blog minion, I don’t have many rules.
Actually, I do have many rules.
Can you require an employee to take an HIV test?
The answer to this question, because I’m a lawyer, is “it depends.”
Naturally, of course.