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ADA

Find out if your website is accessible to the disabled; such lawsuits tripled in 2018

02/22/2019
For employers, part of complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act involves making their workplace accessible to disabled customers. But if you serve the public online, the ADA also requires you to make changes to your virtual workplace.

You could be liable for disability bias even if ADA accommodation denial was legitimate

02/13/2019
Don’t get overconfident because you turned down an employee’s request for an ADA accommodation that you sincerely believed was unnecessary. You can still be sued—and you might lose!

ADA accommodation: Take all requests seriously

02/12/2019
When an employee asks for an ADA reasonable accommodation, take that request seriously even if you don’t think it’s valid. Start the interactive process and see where it goes.

Temporary injuries generally don’t rise to the level of ADA disability

02/12/2019
Each condition must be assessed individually. Here’s how that played out in a recent case.

Track every accommodation request to show when employees asked—or didn’t

02/12/2019
Disabled employees who need reasonable accommodations must request them. If no request is made, no ADA accommodation is due. That’s why it is important to routinely track when you receive accommodation requests.

Job descriptions: Why you need ’em, how to write ’em

02/05/2019
Federal labor law requires HR professionals to do a lot of different things. Writing job descriptions is not one of them. Because this arduous task is optional, many organizations skip right over it. That’s not wise. There are many practical and legal reasons to draft (and up­­date) job descriptions.

Sometimes, it’s impossible to accommodate disability

02/04/2019
There are limits to what’s considered a reasonable ADA accommodation.

Appeals court rules against health-care employee who refused vaccine

02/04/2019
The ADA prohibits employers from forcing employees to undergo medical testing before being offered a job. Employers should always be prepared to justify testing before requiring employees to participate.

Insist on working within medical restrictions

02/04/2019
The ADA doesn’t require employers to let disabled employers test the limits of their abilities in ways that may lead to injury.

ADA: No need to create new job as accommodation

01/24/2019
When workers need time to heal from workplace injuries, many employers accommodate temporary restrictions by assigning them to light-duty tasks until they’re ready to resume their old jobs. But if the restrictions become permanent, the employer doesn’t have to create a permanent light-duty job.