Category Archives: Disability Discrimination
How Employers Routinely Violate The ADA: By Firing Employees They Regard As Disabled
A common employment law myth, our wrongful termination lawyers in Marion County, Florida have learned, is that employees must have an actual disability in order to be protected from disability discrimination under employment discrimination law. An employment law myth that employers routinely exploit without legal consequences by terminating employees who do not have an… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From Disability-Based Hostile Work Environment Harassment?
Through their decades of experience representing employees, our employment lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that employees with a disability within the meaning of employment discrimination law are often subjected to harassment because of their disability. For example, employees with a disability within the meaning of employment discrimination law are frequently targeted for verbal… Read More »
Is It a Reasonable Accommodation for an Employee to Use a Store’s Electric Cart While on Duty?
Having litigated disability cases in the workplace for more than two decades, our employment disability discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida, know that employers sometimes refuse to allow employees with disabilities to utilize the most basic and readily available accommodations that would allow them to perform their jobs. Instead, some employers would prefer to… Read More »
Can Employers Fire Disabled Employees While Their Request For An Accommodation Is Still Outstanding?
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than two decades, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have learned that most employers resist providing disabled workers with an accommodation for their disability. Rarely do employers engage in good faith efforts to determine whether they can accommodate disabled employees. In some cases, employers even… Read More »
Are Employees With A Disability Protected From Retaliation When They Request To Work Remotely?
Through their decades of experience representing employment discrimination victims, our labor lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that many employees with a disability need to work from home in order retain their employment. Although each case is highly fact specific and often turns on whether in-person work is an essential function of the employee’s… Read More »
Dollar Store Agrees to Pay One Million Dollars to Settle EEOC Lawsuit Alleging ADA and GINA Violations
Since 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has prohibited discrimination in employment practices on the basis of someone’s disability, defined as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. The ADA protects employees and applicants from discrimination based on their disability, a history of a disability, or… Read More »
Can Employers Fire Employees For Disability-Related Absences From Work?
Having decades of experience representing employment discrimination victims, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida know that disabled employees are sometimes unable to work because of their disability. Despite their obligation to provide reasonable accommodations to disabled employees, many employers mistakenly believe that they are lawfully permitted to terminate disabled employees when they… Read More »
Do Workers Have Any Legal Protection When An Employer’s Attitude Changes After Learning Of Their Disability?
Having represented employment discrimination victims for more than twenty years, our employee rights lawyers in Marion County, Florida know that the attitude of employers towards an employee often changes after they become aware of the employee’s disability. An employer’s change in attitude in far too many cases manifests itself in targeting the employee for… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From Employment Discrimination Because Of Obesity?
For more than twenty years, our employment discrimination lawyers in Citrus County, Florida have fought for the rights of employment discrimination victims. Through their decades of experience representing employment discrimination victims, our employment discrimination attorneys in Inverness, Florida have learned that a common employment law myth is that employees cannot be discriminated against because… Read More »
Walmart Sued for Disability Discrimination…Again
It seems like not a week goes by that Walmart isn’t sued for some alleged labor or employment violation, including every form of employment discrimination there is along with violations of wage and hour laws as well. This may not be entirely surprising, given that Walmart is the world’s largest employer with 2,300,000 employees… Read More »
