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Showing posts with label Reasonable Accommodations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reasonable Accommodations. Show all posts
Friday, June 30, 2023

SCOTUS clarifies "undue hardship" standard for religious accommodation under Title VII

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Awe man, how embarrassing. It turns out that some of us (by which I mean basically all of us) have been getting it wrong for 46 years! You s...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

Third Circuit on religious accommodations and undue hardship analysis

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A fascinating precedential split opinion from the Third Circuit in Groff v. DeJoy .   Background A mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

EEOC publishes technical assistance document on artificial intelligence and the ADA

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Not official use. What if an employer uses a "chatbot" to screen applicants? And, let's say the chatbot is programmed to scree...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Updated EEOC guidance on religious accommodations and COVID-19 vaccine mandates

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As employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates ramp up - voluntarily, in response to federal contractor mandates, and in anticipation of the OSHA eme...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Applying an employment law perspective to Naomi Osaka

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Tennis star Naomi Osaka recently withdrew from the French Open, citing mental health issues that specifically precluded her from participati...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

New EEOC guidance on COVID vaccines: employer mandates and incentives

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At long last, we have the updated EEOC guidance on COVID-19 vaccinations . The two big questions I keep getting are: Can employers require e...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Justices Gorsuch and Alito on inconsistent application of "undue hardship" under ADA and Title VII

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I was juuuust talking about this in my employment law course. As luck would have it, we discussed both disability accommodation (under the A...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Everybody panic! The EEOC just released its entirely unremarkable COVID vaccine guidance.

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The long-awaited EEOC guidance on COVID-19 vaccines is here . Can employers require employees to get the brand new COVID-19 vaccine? Yes, bu...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Grocery store's mask requirements survive ADA legal challenge

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An interesting decision from the Western District of Pennsylvania, in Pletcher v. Giant Eagle . One of the plaintiff's, Josiah Kostek, s...
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Judge Barrett and the case of the Zamboni driver with a disability

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 Back with another employment law opinion from Judge Barrett, this time in Graham v. Arctic Zone Iceplex, LLC .  Graham was a Zamboni driver...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Update and reminder: EEOC guidance on COVID-19 and the ADA

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The EEOC updated its guidance:  What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws . See G.3 and G....
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Accommodation claim survives close shave at the Third Circuit

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"Close shave" - It's a case about a guy with a skin condition, pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), who sought an accommodation to...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Does the cost of a sign language interpreter constitute an undue hardship under the ADA?

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First, check out this great article: How Reasonable is That Accommodation? Case Studies Evaluating the Reasonableness of Workplace Accommoda...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

What is "religion" anyway? Third Circuit weighs in.

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Title VII prohibits workplace discrimination based on religion, and requires reasonable accommodation of sincerely held religious beliefs. ...
Monday, December 4, 2017

MORE Miles on Service Animals and the ADA

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Great news! Bloomberg BNA used some of my interview for a second piece on the ADA implications of service animals in the workplace: Helping ...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Transgender ADA claim survives motion to dismiss

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In Blatt v. Cabela's Retail, Inc. , a Pennsylvania transgender employee filed an ADA discrimination and retaliation claim. She alleged t...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The pharmacist who was afraid of needles and the ADA

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Well, here's an interesting ADA case. In Stevens v. Rite Aid, Corp. , the Second Circuit analyzed an ADA claim from a pharmacist with tr...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

SCOTUS nominee Gorsuch on extended leave as a reasonable accommodation

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I don't usually cover two-year old decisions from outside of my jurisdiction, but this case has (1) a hot employment law topic; and (2) ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Hospital Coughs Up $300,000 in Vaccination Lawsuit

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We've been here before. Employers (often hospitals) require employees to get vaccines. Some employees object on religious or disability ...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Sikhs, Drug testing, and Religious Accommodation

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Not official use. Under Title VII, employers have an obligation to reasonably accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employ...