Offering Practical Guidance to Employers
“The accommodation process is not a verbal game of tag in which the last person to say something wins,” according to the dissenting judge in a case that focused on which party was responsible for the breakdown of that process. Ward v. McDonald, Secretary U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (D.C. Cir. August 12, 2014).
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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…
To what extent may an employer deny a requested accommodation because of on an employee’s poor performance which is caused by a disability?
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York denied an employee’s request to telecommute or to relocate his office to a different Fed building because the employee had been rated as “below standards” in…
