As an alum of USC Law, I have been particularly interested in the news surrounding USC’s termination of football coach, Steve Sarkisian. In fact, several of my colleagues have already
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Happy 25th Birthday Americans With Disabilities Act. Now Go Find a Job.
July 26, 2015 will mark 25 years since George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act. Has the ADA behaved like many 25 year olds by moving to Brooklyn
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What Do You Do When An Employee Blames Bad Behavior on a Disability?
For years we’ve been following legal developments on how employers deal with workers who attribute bad behavior to a disability. (We wrote about it here and here and here,
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Recent Case Shows Lengths CA Employers Must Go to Accommodate Disabled Employees
One of our ongoing themes has been the extent of an employer’s obligation to accommodate disabled employees. A
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Ten Commandments for Avoiding Employment Lawsuits in California
From the employer’s perspective, the only way to truly “win” an employment case is to avoid it in the first place. We litigators love the thrill of gettting a
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I Didn't Steal the Potato Chips, My Disability Did (Part 2)
Last April, we reported on a case where an employer fired an employee for helping herself to a bag of potato chips without paying. The employee argued that she is
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I Didn't Steal the Potato Chips, My Disability Did
With increasing frequency, employees are relying on disabilities to excuse work-related misconduct. While we’ve been writing about this for years (some suggested that my 2011 post “To What Extent
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What Every Employee Who Receives Employment Inquiries Needs to Know About the Americans With Disabilities Act
I’ve written plenty about the complexities of the interactive process and accommodating disabled workers (such as here and here and here and here). Not all your employees need to
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The Interactive Process and Reasonable Accommodation of Disabled Workers
I’ve said before that one of the most daunting challenges facing employers today is understanding the extent of their obligation to accommodate disabled workers. The difficulty stems from the breadth
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What The Interactive Process Requires
In a prior post, I discussed what triggers the obligation to engage in the interactive process. Once that obligation arises, what is it employers are required to do?
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