by Market Cheetah | Dec 2, 2020 | Disability Accommodations, Employment Law, Human Resources
A railroad company may have violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it decertified one of its conductors who it determined could not satisfy government noise-testing and protection requirements because of his hearing loss, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held.
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by Market Cheetah | Nov 18, 2020 | Disability Accommodations, Employment Law, Human Resources
A production supervisor with a disability could pursue his claims for discriminatory and retaliatory termination because there were disputed issues of fact that should be heard by a jury, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey decided.
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by Market Cheetah | Nov 18, 2020 | Disability Accommodations, Employment Law, Human Resources
A warehouse worker who, after an injury, could no longer use a manual pallet jack to lift and move material within the warehouse was not entitled to use an electric forklift in place of the manual pallet as a reasonable accommodation under the Minnesota Human Rights Act, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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by Market Cheetah | Nov 4, 2020 | Disability Accommodations, Employment Law, Human Resources
An employee with carpal tunnel syndrome failed to show that her employer’s reason for eliminating her position was a pretext for disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), according to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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by Market Cheetah | Nov 3, 2020 | California, Disability Accommodations, Human Resources
An employee’s inability to work under a particular supervisor because of anxiety and stress related to the supervisor’s standard oversight of the employee’s job performance did not constitute a disability under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act.
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by Market Cheetah | Oct 21, 2020 | Disability Accommodations, Employment Law, Human Resources
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) did not require an employer to accommodate an employee who had such severe medical restrictions limiting the amount of weight she could carry that it rendered her incapable of performing essential job functions with or without accommodation, ruled the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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