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Keep Your Company Compliant in November: ADA Accommodations
Employment Law & HR Topics
Keep Your Company Compliant in November: ADA Accommodations

Monthly Compliance – November   If you’re in HR, you’re no stranger to compliance management, forms, and deadlines—though keeping them all in order may be…

HR Form of the Week: ADA Medical Certification
Employee Benefits
HR Form of the Week: ADA Medical Certification

Each week, we will feature a different document from our forms library and provide information about where to find it, what it's used for, and…

Monthly Compliance Calendar Alert - Keep Your Company Compliant in April: Time-Off from Work, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
COVID-19/Coronavirus
Monthly Compliance Calendar Alert - Keep Your Company Compliant in April: Time-Off from Work, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

If you’re in HR, you’re no stranger to compliance management, forms, and deadlines—though keeping them all in order may be a different story. We want…

Washington State Employers Beware, Obesity Can be a Disability
Employment Law & HR Topics
Washington State Employers Beware, Obesity Can be a Disability

It is illegal to refuse to hire qualified potential employees because the employer perceives them to be obese, the Washington Supreme Court has ruled. After…

Safety First: How to Keep the Workplace and Your Employees Safe
Discrimination & Harassment
Safety First: How to Keep the Workplace and Your Employees Safe

If you have any exposure to the daily news or, in some places, just look out your window, you can find more than ample proof…

Excellent Example of How NOT to Handle ADA Matters
Discrimination & Harassment
Excellent Example of How NOT to Handle ADA Matters

An alcoholic employee disclosed his dependency issues to his employer. After completing treatment, the employee was terminated. Add suspected associational discrimination to the mix, and…

7th Circuit Issues Guidance to Employers Facing ADA "Regarded As" Claims
Discrimination & Harassment
7th Circuit Issues Guidance to Employers Facing ADA "Regarded As" Claims

A recent case decided by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals provides helpful guidance for addressing "regarded as" disabled claims brought under the Americans…

Mandatory Flu Shots and Unintended Side Effects
Employee Management
Mandatory Flu Shots and Unintended Side Effects

Can you require all employees to get flu shots? Kind of. Mandatory flu shot policies are particularly prevalent in the healthcare field, and generally, employers…

CO Supreme Court: Worker's Discharge for Off-duty Pot Use Was Legal
Colorado
CO Supreme Court: Worker's Discharge for Off-duty Pot Use Was Legal

In a nationally anticipated decision, the Colorado Supreme Court recently upheld an employer's termination of an employee for a positive drug test because of his…

Technology Advances Require Another Look at Telecommuting as Reasonable Accomodation
Employment Law & HR Topics
Technology Advances Require Another Look at Telecommuting as Reasonable Accomodation

By Roberta Fields The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently revived an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) suit filed on behalf of an ex-Ford…