Observed each October, National Disability Employment Awareness Month celebrates the value and talent workers with disabilities add to America’s workplaces and economy. NDEAM’s purpose is to confirm our national commitment to ensuring disabled workers have access to good jobs, every month of every year. That’s the spirit behind this year’s […]
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01
Sep
2024
PWFA: What you don’t know can hurt you!
If you have 15 or more employees, your company is covered by the new federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and its even newer regulations, in effect as of June, 2024. Maybe you’ve read that PWFA is modeled on the Americans with Disabilities Act, and requires reasonable accommodations. But unless you’ve […]
Read moreThat’s what the Red Queen told Alice at the beginning of Through the Looking Glass. You may feel like that sometimes, when you consider keeping up with changing requirements for posters and forms. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights issued new mandatory posters […]
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05
Sep
2021
Failure to Accommodate Disability = Liability
Traditionally, an adverse employment action—getting disciplined or fired, being denied a raise or promotion, for example—has been a necessary part of a discrimination case. But in the area of disability discrimination, state and federal courts around the country have differed about whether an employee who has been denied a disability […]
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