by worksaver-admin | Mar 23, 2019 | ADA
What happens when, at the end of a good faith interactive dialogue and despite the parties’ best efforts, there is apparently no reasonable accommodation that will enable the employee to perform the essential functions of their job? Can the employer safely terminate,...
by worksaver-admin | Mar 23, 2019 | ADA, Corporate Compliance
A former employee with WellStar Health System failed to demonstrate to a federal appeals court that she was terminated from her job based on a disability instead of her admission that she reported to work impaired by prescription drugs. The former employee had filed...
by worksaver-admin | Feb 14, 2019 | ADA
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals clarifies that employers have discretion to provide a reasonable accommodation as identified through the interactive accommodation review (IAR) process. Once an employee abandons the IAR process, the employer has no duty to accommodate....
by worksaver-admin | Feb 14, 2019 | ADA
The U.S. Department of Justice reached a January 31, 2019 settlement of an American with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) Title III complaint against health care provider Selma Medical Associates relating to provision of medical services to an individual with opioid use...
by worksaver-admin | Feb 14, 2019 | ADA
As published by Lexology, an employee who missed nine months of work for reasons unrelated to her disability, and then another day without medical verification, was found by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to be unqualified to perform an essential...
