Articles Posted in Disability

An accommodation does not become unreasonable merely because the employee would rather save it for vacations and family emergencies.

TL;DR: A federal employee experiencing depression and cardiac arrhythmia requested unpaid leave, a lateral transfer, or other help. Her employer offered flexible use of approximately 240 hours of accrued paid leave and, when no comparable position was available, a lower-level job. The Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the employer because the employee received reasonable options, even if they were not the ones she preferred.

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His doctors cleared him to return to work. The railroad kept him away from moving trains for five years.

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