The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new technical assistance document (“TAD”), “Visual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” addressing how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to job applicants and employees with visual disabilities. Like the technical assistance the EEOC published earlier this year on hearing disabilities

Brandon U. Campbell
Brandon U. Campbell is a principal in the Miami, Florida, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He regularly handles single-plaintiff and advice & counsel matters, including Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, FCRA, FLSA, complex disability, leave, and health accommodation issues, complex arbitration issues, defamation, negligent retention, Florida common-law employment/harassment litigation, and non-litigation matters such as RIFs, employment agreements, and severance agreements.
Brandon has also presented on some of the most prestigious platforms in the employment law community, which include the employment law conferences of the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association. Brandon is also a member of Jackson Lewis’s disability, leave, and health management practice group, having co-authored multiple practice group articles while also addressing complex subject matter issues on behalf of the practice group.
Appellate Court Addresses How Much Information Employee Must Submit to Support an Accommodation Request
One of the many difficult issues employers face under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is determining what information a disabled employee must provide to an employer to trigger the employer’s duty to accommodate a disability. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit addressed that question for the first time in Owens v. …