Disability News
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Employer's knowledge of opiate Rx not basis for ADA claims – 8th Circ
Reuters
A supervisor’s knowledge that a worker was taking prescription hydrocodone is insufficient to establish that the employer considered the worker to be disabled, a federal appeals court held on Monday.
The 8th U.S. Circuit...
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Providing Employee With Crohn's Disease A Flexible Bathroom Break Schedule: “Time Theft” Or Reasonable Accommodation?
Lexology
Being moved closer to a bathroom doesn’t sound like it’s too burdensome an accommodation to an employee suffering from Crohn’s Disease – a condition included in the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”)...
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Comcast didn't violate ADA in denying transfer, judge says
HR Dive
- Comcast did not fail to accommodate an employee's disability by declining to reassign her, a federal district court judge has ruled (Turcotte v. Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC, No. 17-cv-150 (N.H. Feb. 14, 2019)). ...
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Mobile phone accessibility improves, but gaps remain, study finds
Phys.Org
Mobile phones are increasingly more accessible by people with disabilities, but significant gaps remain, according to a newly published study from the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Inclusive Technologies (Wireless RERC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology....
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Firing of worker with flesh-eating bacteria didn't violate ADA
HR Dive
- A Minnesota city did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it offered an employee a lower paying job or a severance package after he took extensive leave to recover from a disease ...
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Settlement Agreement:
How to Avoid An “Absolut” Disaster When Managing Worker Medical Restrictions
Lexology
When a medical or mental condition prevents an employee from working at full capacity, the situation can quickly become complicated...