Category Archives: EEO/Disabilities
GENERALIZED ANXIETY AS A DISABILITY Anxiety attacks are not only real, but they are a recognize disability protected by the EEOC under the disability statutes. When an employee was denied the right to bring a service dog to work that … Continue reading
LIGHT DUTY DENIALS CAN BE CONSTRUCTIVE SUSPENSIONS What do you do if an employee’s doctor says she can only return to work if given light duty, the agency refuses to provide any, and as a result the employee takes large … Continue reading
TEST YOURSELF- FMLA, DISABILITIES, AND LIGHT DUTY An employee, Jessie Crutch, had a long-time reasonable accommodation of being allowed to rest his hip for a few minutes every few hours while working as a warehouse custodian. As the injury got … Continue reading
Posted in Discipline/Adverse Action, EEO/Disabilities, FMLA, Test Yourself
Tagged FMLA, Rehabilitation Act
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ACCOMMODATING ALMOST EVERY TIME IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH Not long ago the Dept. of Defense tried to defend itself against an allegation that it had failed to provide a deaf employee a reasonable accommodation by pointing out that it had … Continue reading
CANCER VICTIMS’ RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE EEOC has just updated its Q&A about the rights cancer victims have in the workplace. Among the more relevant questions are 1- What other types of reasonable accommodations may employees with cancer need? 2- … Continue reading
ANOTHER RIGHT TO BE REASSIGNED One of the major benefits denied federal employees is the right to laterally reassign to a vacancy elsewhere in the country even if it is for the same job title, series and grade that the … Continue reading
Posted in ADA/ADAAA, EEO/Disabilities, Reassignments
Tagged EEO/Remedies, Reassignment, Sanchez v. Vilsack
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REASSIGNMENTS RIGHTS FOR DISABLED EMPLOYEES Disabled employees just got a little more clout to insist on reassignment to jobs they can do.
WHEN IS SEVERE OBESITY A PROTECTED DISABILITY? A federal district court recently backed up EEOC’s position that severe obesity is considered a disability protected by law. That leaves us with the question of what is a severe disability.
$300,000 FOR A DENIED REASSIGNMENT Employees almost never have the right to demand a reassignment to a different supervisor, job or location. But if the employee has a disabling condition for which a reassignment would be a reasonable accommodation, the … Continue reading
SSA’s $8,987 ONE-PERSON SPACE HEATER How did the Social Security Administration turn the cost of a hundred-dollar personal space heater for one employee into something nearly 90 times as expensive?
Posted in EEO/Disabilities, EEO/Remedies
Tagged Crohn's, Reasonable Accommodation, Space Heater
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