Appeals, Reasonable Accommodation, Telecommuting

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Remote Employee Who Did Not Reside or Work in Minnesota Is Not Protected by the Minnesota...

Ballard Spahr LLP on 4/15/2025

A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently issued a decision in Kuklenski v. Medtronic USA, Inc., No. 24-1310 (8th Cir. Apr. 9, 2025), finding that the definition of “employee” in...more

Tenth Circuit Upholds Employer’s Decision to Deny Telework Accommodation Request Under Rehabilitation Act

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/27/2021

On September 15, 2021, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of an employer. In Brown v. Austin, the Tenth Circuit found that an employee’s telework, weekend work, and...more

There’s No Place Like Home – But Is That a Reasonable Accommodation?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/16/2019

A pending federal appeals court case is the latest to highlight the challenges employers face when considering accommodation requests from an employee with a medical condition. As we have written before, leave and...more

Eighth Circuit Says Employer Not Required to Follow Employee's Preference to Work From Home

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 2/15/2019

Over the past several years, our practice has seen a marked increase in the number of employee accommodation requests that involve remote work. As communications technologies have improved, these employees regularly contend...more

Fifth Circuit Holds Reporting to Work Regularly is Essential Function of Attorney’s Job Under the ADA

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 7/12/2017

In a decision that will provide some solace to employers asked to permit remote work as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently...more

Telecommuting May Not Always Be a Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA

Troutman Pepper on 6/23/2015

An en banc panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (Court) recently upheld the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Ford Motor Company in EEOC v. Ford Motor Company, on the basis that telecommuting was not...more

Sixth Circuit Sides with Ford Motor Company in ADA Telecommuting Case

K&L Gates LLP on 5/12/2015

Employers often grapple with what constitutes a reasonable accommodation under the American with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). This issue becomes increasingly complex when evaluating whether telecommuting is an appropriate and...more

Sixth Circuit Rejects EEOC's Demand for Telecommuting as ADA Accommodation

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 4/17/2015

Last year, a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held 2-1 that the Americans with Disabilities Act required Ford Motor Company to allow a buyer with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to possibly telecommute up to four...more

Employers Can Decide That Physical Presence at the Workplace is an Essential Function

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/17/2015

On April 10, 2015, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited en banc decision in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Ford Motor Company following a vacated panel decision from April 2014 in which a...more

En Banc Sixth Circuit Decision Holds that Telecommuting Was Not a Reasonable Accommodation Under the Americans with Disabilities...

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 4/16/2015

Last Friday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc held that telecommuting up to four days a week was not a reasonable accommodation under the ADA for a disabled Ford Motor Co. employee. The decision, EEOC v....more

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