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Employers: Are You Analyzing Your Employees’ ADA Accommodation Requests Too Narrowly? Beware of This Pitfall!

October 18, 2013

By: Lori Welty, Compliance Counsel and Marti Cardi, Chief Compliance Officer When an employee approaches your HR representative with a request for a disability-related accommodation, does HR only consider whether the request relates to the employee’s ability to do his or her job? According to the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, this may … Continued

Employers Take Note: EEOC Shows Interest in Workplace Treatment of Victims

November 28, 2012

By Compliance Team

Marti Cardi, J.D., Chief Compliance Officer Megan G. Holstein, J.D., Senior Counsel Employers’ treatment of employees who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking (“domestic violence”) is an area of concern to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Although Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with … Continued

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