Appeals, Reasonable Accommodation, Employee Reassignment

Québec Court of Appeal Clarifies the Duty to Reassign Pregnant Workers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/8/2025

In Ville de Québec v. Ouellet, a pregnant police sergeant asked her employer, the City of Québec, to assign her safe duties rather than be pulled off the job under the workers’ compensation program known as Program for a safe...more

Fourth Circuit Ruling Favors Employers in High Profile ADA Case

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 12/4/2020

On November 18, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a decision that retailer Lowe’s Home Centers LLC (“Lowe’s”) did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it removed a...more

Fourth Circuit Ruling on ADA Reassignment Has Major Implications for Employers

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 12/4/2020

In the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2002 Barnett decision, the court held that qualified disabled employees are entitled to reassignment to an existing vacant position under the Americans with Disabilities Act if they become unable...more

Court of Appeal Upholds LAPD Recruits’ Failure to Accommodate Claim

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/18/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Court of Appeal held that police officer recruits who were not “qualified individuals” under FEHA for purposes of their discrimination claim could nonetheless prevail on their claim for failure to...more

Court: Employees Seeking Accommodation Must Compete For Reassignment - Split In Circuits Could Lead To Supreme Court Intervention

Fisher Phillips on 12/28/2016

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a disabled worker forced to leave her position because of her physical impairment must compete for vacant jobs when seeking reassignment, handing a victory to her former employer....more

EEOC Suffers Another Setback – ADA Does Not Require Automatic Reassignment of Disabled Employee to Open Position

Foley & Lardner LLP on 12/27/2016

As we have previously reported, under the Obama administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has aggressively sought to expand the breadth of the agency’s authority to collect employee pay data and other...more