Tag: Disability

April 14, 2023

Jessica Dueñas was determined to keep her secret. In 2019, Dueñas was a special education teacher at a middle school in Louisville, Ky., who had just been named the Kentucky Teacher of the Year. She was well-respected by her colleagues […]

February 28, 2023

An employer’s suggestion to a safety director, when denying his request for an iPad to facilitate reading lengthy documents while traveling among worksites, that he have his eyes examined was sufficient for a reasonable juror to find that the company […]

February 24, 2023

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently sued the United Labor Agency (ULA), a workforce development organization in Cleveland, for allegedly denying an employee with breast cancer reasonable accommodations and forcing her to resign. The EEOC said the action […]

February 8, 2023

HR professionals must recognize when it is legally acceptable to ask applicants health-related questions—including whether they have a hearing disability—and if they need job-related accommodations, according to updated guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The resource guide, […]

November 21, 2022

The Georgia Court of Appeals recently upheld a trial court’s dismissal of an employee’s claim that his employer failed to accommodate his disability, holding that Georgia state law provided him no legal remedy. Facts In 2016, Lindsay Pope Brayfield & […]

November 4, 2022

The number of people aged under 40 with a clinical diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in the UK has risen to 148,000, a 23% increase from 2017 figures, the charity warned. More than 3.78 million people in the UK have […]

October 25, 2022

Labor market data shows that people with disabilities are back to work at pre-pandemic employment levels after being disproportionately laid off during the pandemic. But these workers remain a largely untapped talent pool, still seek to feel fully included in […]

October 12, 2022

Much has changed in the world of work since the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990. Among those changes are the widespread ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a huge increase in remote work and higher […]

September 30, 2022

The case of Kaur v. Foster Poultry Farms LLC involved a workplace injury. Foster Poultry Farms LLC employed the plaintiff as a yield monitor at its chicken processing facility. While working in 2013, she slipped while wearing company-issued rubber boots […]

September 16, 2022

A restaurant in Burlington, Vermont, recently made headlines after refusing to seat a customer with a service dog. The restaurant owner cited an incident in which a previous patron’s dog attacked a neighboring table. In addition, she refused to seat […]

August 30, 2022

Once an employee requests an accommodation, their employer has a duty to engage in an “interactive process” to try to determine whether they can accommodate the disability. With that in mind, employers should take note of this recent decision from […]

August 11, 2022

Misunderstandings over an office birthday party recently taught a Kentucky employer an expensive lesson about disability discrimination. A jury awarded $450,000 to the affected employee who didn’t want the party and allegedly suffered a panic attack afterward. The employer’s alleged, […]

July 14, 2022

On June 30, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby for refusing to reasonably accommodate and then firing an employee with mental health problems who requested the use of a service dog. The EEOC alleges […]

May 27, 2022

Ms McMahon worked as a typist at law firm Rothwell & Evans, and was dismissed due to a series of absences. McMahon had sent an email to a senior lawyer describing how menopause-related hot flushes were “unbearable” and made her […]

May 18, 2022

Employers must review their artificial intelligence tools to ensure they are not violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), according to new guidance released by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Earlier this […]

May 17, 2022

Asthma + Lung UK has said that in the past six months around half a million people have visited its online long Covid health advice or called its helpline for wide-ranging symptoms, including breathlessness and persistent coughs. The numbers of […]

April 11, 2022

The guide, Evaluating and supporting Neurodifferences at work, has been developed by the SOM Occupational Health Psychology Special Interest Group and includes Dr Nancy Doyle, Dr Belinda Medhurst and Dr Gail Kinman among its contributors. The guide is aimed at […]

February 21, 2022

When people talk about diversity and inclusion, they often think mainly about race and gender. These two aspects are perhaps the most prominent dimensions of diversity, but they’re far from the only ones. Disability, whether physical or mental, is also […]

February 15, 2022

AT&T did not discriminate against an employee with a disability by selecting her for a reduction in force (RIF) on two separate occasions. The reductions in force were adverse employment actions, according to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, […]

January 27, 2022

The ADA prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from terminating an employee based on a real or perceived disability, which it defines as a “physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.” Employers can […]