Category Archives: EEO/Disabilities
$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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MEDICAL LEAVE AND ADA/ADAAA There are two very good articles circulating that union leaders should read. The first comes from the law firm of Constangy, Brooks & Smith, and it explains EEOC’s approach to leave requests for medical disabilities. It … Continue reading
Posted in ADA/ADAAA, EEO/Disabilities, Leave, Membership Building, Privacy
Tagged ADA, ADAAA, Disabled, Medical Leave
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NTEU WINS $ FOR SIGHT & HEARING IMPAIRED, BUT SHAME ON FLRA Calling once again on the small army of lawyers it employs, NTEU has won two more Section 508 Rehabilitation Act discrimination cases.
Posted in EEO/Disabilities, FLRA
Tagged Blind, Deaf, Disability, NTEU, Rehabilitaton Act
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