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Showing posts with label disability discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disability discrimination. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Remote Work and the ADA: Why Employers Should Think Twice Before Mandating Return to Office

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Smith v. District of Columbia  should embolden all disabled employees, whose disability necessities remote work to perform the essential fun...
Monday, November 18, 2024

Amazon's Exposure to Failure-to-Accommodate Claims Based on New Reasonable Accommodation Policy

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Amazon recently updated its Reasonable Accommodation Policy as to employees seeking disability accommodations to work from home.   Here is a...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Brick-and-Mortar Businesses Without Accessibility Features on Websites Will Continue to Get Sued

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A recent Federal Case highlights why businesses with physical locations must make sure that their websites are accessible to people with dis...
Monday, September 30, 2024

EEOC's Disabled Federal Employee Retention Report - Discrimination Issues Lower Job Retention

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T he Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a Retention of Disabled Employee Report  with recommendations for federal agenc...
Friday, September 06, 2024

New NYS Law Impacting Disabled Public Employees

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Disability discrimination of public employees got a lot more interesting on September 4, 2024, when NYS Governor Kathy Hochul signed into la...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Proposed Rule Aims to Enhance Air Travel Safety for Passengers with Disabilities

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has introduced a proposed rule to bolster regulations under the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA). ...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Lieb at Law Represents Class Action Hearing Impair Tenants in Landmark NYC Disability Discrimination Case

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In a significant development in a case that underscores the ongoing challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in accessing suitable ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Understanding the EEOC's Rising Focus on Disability Discrimination: A Call to Action

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Recent trends have seen the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) significantly bolster its scrutiny on workplace discrimination, p...
Wednesday, February 09, 2022

New York Establishes Office of the Advocate for People with Disabilities

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New law establishes Office of the Advocate for People with Disabilities. The Office assures that disabled people are afforded the opportuni...
Monday, January 10, 2022

New Workers' Compensation Law Allows for Attorneys' Fees

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A new law  seeks to reduce bias against injured workers in low-income brackets who cannot afford attorneys' fees. New York's Workers...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Americans with Disabilities Act Update: COVID-19 Considered a Disability for Purposes of Employment Discrimination

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Thousands of Americans who have contracted COVID-19 may now qualify for disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Eq...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Discrimination: Disabled's Right to Reasonable Accommodation to Eliminate Possible Exposure to COVID in the Workplace

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A must read for all employers, both public and private, is the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's publication " What You ...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

HIV Patients Have Right to Cosmetic Surgery

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The Federal Courts, in the Southern District of New York, awarded $125,000 to each individual who was denied cosmetic surgery due to their H...
Thursday, July 02, 2020

5 Step Process For Employers/Landlords to Protect Against Disability Discrimination Lawsuits for Failure to Accommodate

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A recent New York State, Appellate Division case ( Hosking v. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ) serves as a reminder to employers and...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

FedEx Ground Agrees to Pay $3.3 Million to Settle Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") issued a press release today announcing that it entered into a consent decree...