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Undue Hardship Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Teachers

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

ICYMI: Federal Court Clarifies Employee Rights to Workplace Accommodation under the ADA

Take note, employers: if your decision to accommodate a qualified employee with a disability is solely based on necessity, you may be inviting unnecessary legal exposure. ...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Accommodation may be required even if “essential functions” can be performed without

Interesting decision this week from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. A high school math teacher (we’ll call her “Ms. Plantagenet”) had post-traumatic stress disorder. Years earlier, her...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Shielding Teacher From Unruly Students Not ADA Reasonable Accommodation

Sometimes employers face requests for reasonable accommodation that do not cost much, but which would materially interfere with the employee’s ability to get their work done. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),...more

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