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Blanket Prohibitors Beware: When Telecommuting or Remote Work May Be a Required Disability Accommodation

Blanket Prohibitors Beware: When Telecommuting or Remote Work May Be a Required Disability Accommodation

2022-10-29T01:48:38-06:00By MTteam|Categories: Disability Accommodation, Labor and Employment|Tags: ada, Allison Bussell, remotework, telecommuting|

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has unequivocally weighed in: failure to permit an employee to telecommute or work remotely as a disability accommodation may violate the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”). To date, employers in the [...]

Reasonable Minds Can Differ: Employees Who Pose a “Direct Threat”

Reasonable Minds Can Differ: Employees Who Pose a “Direct Threat”

2022-10-29T01:48:39-06:00By MTteam|Categories: Labor and Employment, Sixth Circuit|Tags: ada, Allison Bussell, disability, medicalopinion, summaryjudgment|

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits employers from discriminating against any “qualified individual on the basis of a disability.” But a person is not a “qualified individual” under the ADA if he or she “poses a ‘direct threat’ to [...]