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In a controversial move, the EEOC yesterday issued Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues, along with a “Q&A” document about the guidance and a Fact Sheet for Small Businesses.  Two Commissioners, Constance S. Barker and Victoria A. Lipnic, filed statements expressing their dissent from the Commission’s adoption of the Guidance.…

The issue seems to occur regularly and a recent call for advice prompts me to address it. A supervisor accommodates an employee’s work limitation caused by a medical impairment and life goes on….until a new manager begins and ends the accommodation. 

A federal district court in Illinois addressed a very similar situation In Isbell v. …

Now that summer is upon us, at least some employees—a small percent, no doubt–may be thinking about how to turn those half day Fridays off into full day Fridays off, or turning two day weekends into three day weekends.   For employees lacking the creativity to develop their own strategies, the internet offers much guidance, such…

In its 2005 guidance on working at home, or telecommuting, as a reasonable accommodation, the EEOC said that “[m]any employers have discovered the benefits of allowing employees to work at home through telework…programs.” I suspect as many requests to work at home are met with quiet groans by employers as by the excitement of discovering…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that it has entered into a landmark consent decree resolving its first lawsuit brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act centered on the accessibility of corporate websites and mobile applications. Under the decree in National Federation of the Blind, et al. and United States v. HRB Digital LLC,…

If you are well enough to fish in fishing tournaments, you are well enough to come to work, right? Most employers, I suspect, would agree with that view and would be quite upset to learn that an employee on paid FMLA leave was on the road, fishing in tournaments, earning prize money. But the situation,…