Category: Disabilities

Lengthy Restroom Use? Reasonable Accommodation May Be Needed
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Posted in Disabilities Discrimination

Lengthy Restroom Use? Reasonable Accommodation May Be Needed

We have an employee who spends a considerable amount of time every day using the restroom. After she comes back from the restroom, she takes…

Factors to Consider When Employee Asks to Extend Family Leave
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Posted in Disabilities

Factors to Consider When Employee Asks to Extend Family Leave

We have more than one employee who have requested extensions of their family leave (for various reasons). Do we have to grant these extensions, or…

Employers Don’t Have to Provide Indefinite Leave of Absence as Accommodation,
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Posted in Disabilities Time Off

Employers Don’t Have to Provide Indefinite Leave of Absence as Accommodation, Court Reaffirms

Managing leaves of absence — like those related to the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and pregnancy disability leave…

Wearable Tech in the Workplace: Efficiency Booster or Discrimination Liability?
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Posted in Disabilities

Wearable Tech in the Workplace: Efficiency Booster or Discrimination Liability?

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published new guidance on the use of wearable technology to monitor employees in the workplace. Like many…

DOL Proposes Phasing Out Subminimum Wage for Disabled Workers
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Posted in Disabilities Minimum Wage

DOL Proposes Phasing Out Subminimum Wage for Disabled Workers

On December 3, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a proposed rule that would eventually phase out certificates that permit employers to pay certain…

Assistive Animal at Work Still Subject to Minimum Standards
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Posted in Disabilities

Assistive Animals at Work Still Subject to Minimum Standards

One of our employees has asked to bring an emotional support dog to the office. I know about service animals in the workplace. Do we…

Good Process Key to Choosing Reasonable Accommodation for Disability
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Posted in Disabilities

Good Process Key to Choosing Reasonable Accommodation for Disability

One of our employees with a disability requires a reasonable accommodation. May we choose the reasonable accommodation that we provide? Perhaps. Determining what accommodations, if…

How to Navigate Reasonable Accommodations
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How to Navigate Reasonable Accommodations Tackled in Upcoming Webinar

In 2023, 22.5 percent of people with a disability were employed — a record high since the data was first collected in 2008. As more…

Visual Impairment
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Posted in Accessibility Disabilities

EEOC Updates ‘Visual Disabilities in the Workplace’ Guidance

Vision impairments can start or occur at any time in life due to a variety of different factors. In 2022, for instance, approximately 18 percent…

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EEOC Updates ‘Hearing Disabilities in the Workplace’ Guidance

Approximately 48 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss, according to the Hearing Loss Association of America, which also notes that hearing loss has…