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12 Sep 2023, 6:18 am
When workers are impaired by prescription drugs or over-the-counter medications, other steps may be necessary under state and federal employment law, such as anti-discrimination laws under the Americans with Disabilities Act. [read post]
3 Sep 2023, 9:43 am
While the lawyers portrayed themselves as advocates for the disabled they very often just took the money and ran, making no effort to make sure the problem that triggered the lawsuit was ever fixed. [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 10:15 am
Understanding Disability Discrimination Laws At the federal level, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the primary legislation that protects individuals with disabilities from discrimination. [read post]
30 Aug 2023, 2:02 am
Depending on the size and type of company you work for, there are federal protections, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), that prohibit discrimination due to mental illness, as well as protect your position if you need time off. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 8:10 am
They can do this, for example: Through placing relevant human rights due diligence (HRDD) and access to remedy requirements on businesses in which they are considering as clients and those which are already clients;Through undertaking their own HRDD in every instance;Through acting as shareholders calling on portfolio businesses to act in accordance with their responsibility to respect human rights;By establishing board oversight of human rights risk management as directors in private… [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 5:52 am
As communities of color and civil rights advocates have repeatedly pointed out, profiling rules that allow law enforcement to define politically loaded terms such as “threat” without safeguards have long contributed to an environment in which certain groups of people–including Muslim-Americans (as potential members of al -Qaeda or ISIS), Black activists (as potential “Black Identity Extremists”), and Asian-Americans (as potential spies for the… [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 1:36 pm
The plaintiff asked it to apply the “significant difficulty or expense” standard used to evaluate reasonable accommodation requests under the Americans with Disabilities Act. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 9:05 pm
Unfortunately, according to a Center for American Progress report which describes what happened to Guckenheimer, her experience is not unique. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 9:22 pm
Now that continuous enrollment is ending, millions of Americans are at risk of losing their existing Medicaid coverage. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 1:20 pm
John’s accommodation request based on his belief that due to the remote-first nature of the company, it would not extend an offer of employment for the position to a deaf candidate in any event.The EEOC contends these actions violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires employers engage with applicants to identify and provide reasonable accommodations and prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified applicants based on their… [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 6:48 am
Leonard in his book, Illiberal Reformers — Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 10:11 am
Stamer has worked extensively domestically and internationally with business, government and community leaders to prepare for and deal with pregnancy, disability and other discrimination, leave, health and safety, and other workforce, employee benefit, health care and other operations planning, preparedness and response for more than 35 years. [read post]
9 Aug 2023, 4:30 am
We highlight (1) the role of disability cases in the retrenchment of civil rights, (2) the vast and underappreciated effects that certain “non-disability” cases are likely to have on people with disabilities, and (3) the difficult choices that disability law litigators and advocates face when disability law cases end up before this Court. [read post]
6 Aug 2023, 11:37 am
The company eventually agreed to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters for safety meetings and Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) for daily meetings. [read post]
4 Aug 2023, 5:55 pm
Stamer has worked extensively domestically and internationally with business, government and community leaders to prepare for and deal with pregnancy, disability and other discrimination, leave, health and safety, and other workforce, employee benefit, health care and other operations planning, preparedness and response for more than 35 years. [read post]
4 Aug 2023, 8:08 am
A: No—seen something similar in disability as well. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 10:58 am
Stamer has worked extensively domestically and internationally with business, government and community leaders to prepare for and deal with pregnancy, disability and other discrimination, leave, health and safety, and other workforce, employee benefit, health care and other operations planning, preparedness and response for more than 35 years. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 10:40 am
., faces an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) lawsuit that charges the employer violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) by failing to accommodate an employee’s disability by allowed ng her to undergo dialysis in its workplace and then retaliating against her for requesting the accommodation and filing a charge with the EEOC. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 9:19 am
We represent Oklahoma faith leaders, parents, and public-education advocates who have had enough. [read post]
29 Jul 2023, 10:17 am
The disability rights advocates would gladly sacrifice a single case against a small hotel in order to preserve this nationwide settlement program. [read post]
