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• Drinking Water and Restroom Necessity

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  The relevant statute here is the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act. ADA requires an employer to make reasonable accommodations for an employee with a documented permanent disability, who can perform the primary duties of his or her job with that accommodation. It is up to the employee to request a reasonable ...
  2 weeks ago

• Muslim Prayer in Nebraska

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Muslim employees in Nebraska and all other states in the U.S. must be allowed to take prayer breaks during the workday. It is federal law. According to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, anything else would be discrimination in the workplace and therefore illegal. The law says that employers must make ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arizona Religious Discrimination

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  The phrases “reasonable accommodations” and “sincerely held religious beliefs” are two that Arizona employees would be well-advised to know and understand. That is because the federal government requires that employers must make “reasonable accommodations” to workers’ “sincerely held religious ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reasonable Accommodation

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  Burka Barbie: Why is the world’s favourite fashion doll wearing a symbol of oppression? By Barbara Kay (National Post) What’s next in dolls that are “important for girls” to play with? “Illiterate Barbie”? “Forced-Marriage Barbie”? One has to wonder what was going through the heads of these people. ...
  3 weeks ago

• On reasonable accommodation

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 124
  Here’s the beginning of a recent autobiographical post from AbnormalDiversity, where you can go if you want to read the whole thing. It tells us a lot about how universities are organized, and what our social priorities are.OK, so I’ve found out that the midterm in my women and gender studies class requires that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace still a very live issue

  
  Human Rights in the Workplace — Authority: 406
  In a recent Globe and Mail article discussing a similarly recent decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario relating to a young woman who had been fired by her employer after finding out she was pregnant , the following advice was given: "...its wise for women to think strategically about when to disclose a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Maine Religious Discrimination

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Before 9/11, a Muslim woman worked on her Alamo car rental job while wearing her head scarf without encountering problems from her supervisor. The supervisor, in fact, had given permission to do so. The woman’s head scarf bore the Alamo logo. After 9/11, she was fired for wearing the scarf. She challenged the ...
  4 weeks ago

• FLSA and the flu: Making sure your sick-leave policies don’t break the law

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  What’s worse than having a bunch of employees out sick with the pandemic flu? Getting hit with a labor-law violation because of your “flexible” policies that accommodate sick employees. Here’s where good companies run into trouble. They – • Work short-handed while employees are out sick • Shut their ...
  4 weeks ago

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