The Americans with Disabilities Act (www.ada.gov) (“ADA”) requires employer to provide “reasonable accommodations” to their disabled employees. But what exactly is a reasonable accommodation under the ADA? The Code of Federal Regulations defines an accommodation as “any change in the work environment or the way things are customarily done that
The rules have now changed in discrimination lawsuits and hostile work environments, as proven in Vance v. Ball State University, the US Supreme Court’s workplace discrimination ruling. In a 5-4 outcome, the US Supreme Court altered the landscape in which employees could sue for discrimination and hostile work environments by
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has made released its workplace discrimination litigation statistics for 2012. In total, the EEOC received 99,412 charges of employment discrimination and unlawful termination from October 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012 (versus 99,947 charges in 2011). The EEOC filed 122 in 2012 (as compared
