The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) both require employers with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable ...
Reasonable accommodations remove barriers and encourage work-life balance. Balancing work, social lives, family lives and other miscellaneous parts of life can be difficult, even for the most ...
The recently passed Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), set to go into effect on June 27, 2023, will require employers to provide a reasonable accommodation to workers for known limitations related ...
What counts as “reasonable”? It’s a word we assume guarantees fairness, yet in the workplace, the term “reasonable accommodations” can feel anything but fair for employees with disabilities. The ...
As we are all aware, COVID-19 has added new wrinkles to difficult workplace questions – which sometimes leads to troublesome litigation that could otherwise have been avoided. For example, although ...
Since companies started pushing return-to-office mandates, we’ve seen a significant uptick in employees submitting reasonable accommodation requests under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Mt. Pleasant High School student Kaitlyn Wade sat outside of the school building waiting for doors to open. Wade said she wasn't too excited to be wearing a mask because they fog up her glasses.
Accommodations are defined as changes in instruction or assessment practices that reduce the impact of an individual’s disability on his or her interaction with the material. Accommodations can ...
The University at Buffalo is committed to providing equal access to individuals with disabilities, including physical access to programs and reasonable accommodations for members of the university ...