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Showing posts with label reasonable accommodation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reasonable accommodation. 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...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

SCOTUS Eliminates Bad Faith / Gross Misjudgment Standard for Education Disability Discrimination Claims

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In a unanimous decision, in AJT v. Osseo Area Schools , Independent School District No. 279, SCOTUS clarified that Plaintiffs advancing disc...
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...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Empowering Pregnant Workers: Inside the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

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The Federal Government recently passed the  Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which significantly strengthens protections for pregnant ...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

Hearing Disabilities in the Workplace per EEOC

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At the end of January, 2023, EEOC released Hearing Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act , which is a terrif...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Major New RE Landlord / Tenant & Brokerage Regulatory Law in NYS - BOOM

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New York tenants will be receiving new notices about their rights to reasonable modifications and accommodations for persons with disabiliti...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Notice of Tenants' Rights to Reasonable Modifications and Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities

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On March 16, 2022, the NYS Division of Human Rights published Revised Rule Making, HRT-15-21-00005-RP  (proposed 19 NYCRR 466.15), with resp...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Caregiver Discrimination Law Passes Senate

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On March 8, 2022,  S5063  was passed by the NYS Senate. It's now with the Assembly.  The law would prohibit employers from discriminatin...
Monday, December 06, 2021

Second Circuit Holds that Requiring Teachers to Submit a Letter from a Religious Leader in Support of a Request for a Reasonable Accommodation is Unconstitutional

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The 15 public school teachers who challenged New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate live to fight another day in court. The teachers hav...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

OSHA Releases Details/Requirements of Employer Vaccine Mandate

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") issued its long awaited emergency temporary standard requiring all pri...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Fake News Alert - TX & Abbott with Employer Anti-Vaccine Mandate

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Everywhere you look, the media is saying TX isn't permitting employer vaccine mandates, but that is NOT what is happening. To be clear, ...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Second Circuit Dismisses Discrimination Lawsuit by African American Firefighters Seeking an Accommodation to Grow Facial Hair

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit of New York recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by four African American firefighte...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Proposed Regulation as to Notice of Tenants’ Rights to Reasonable Modifications and Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities

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We just got some guidance from the State as to a law that became effective March 2, 2021 about noticing tenants of their rights to reasonabl...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

UPDATE on New Tenant Disclosure Form on Reasonable Modification and Accommodation

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As an update on our BLOG on the new law requiring a disclosure form on reasonable modifications and accommodations, Governor Cuomo just sig...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Don’t Fire Your Employee for Taking Opioids so Fast – Lawsuit Alert

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On August 5, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued guidance explaining exposure to a discrimination lawsuit f...
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...