Category: Disability Discrimination

Quirky Question # 123: Here’s a problem we encounter periodically.  We have a large workforce (in excess of 100,000 employees).  An employee goes out on disability leave, with an expected return date of X.  As that date approaches, we are advised that the employee will need additional time away from the job.  We try to get precise information regarding when...

Quirky Question # 119: One of our employees, who works in an interior cubicle, has advised us that she is suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (or SAD).  She has asked us to move her into an office with windows.  This hardly seems fair to our other employees.  Some have greater seniority.  Others have positions that are at substantially greater pay...

Quirky Question # 101: We recently hired a 49 year-old employee to manage one of our manufacturing facilities.  The employee completed two weeks of paid training and began working at the beginning of the month.  His role is central to the success of the facility.  Less than a month into his new job, however, he called in sick.  Shortly thereafter,...

Quirky Question # 81: I am in charge of staffing at a medium-sized company that runs several centers in the metro area offering emergency day-care services on a daily fee basis for children from 6 months to 6 years of age.  Because we do not know the mix of children who will be brought to our centers on any particular...

Quirky Question # 15: We have a manufacturing company and we use multiple shifts to operate our plant.  We run three shifts daily (7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., 4::00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.)  We recently reassigned one of our employees to the third, and latest shift.  Our employee balked at this assignment, advising us...