HR often must go to great lengths to accommodate employees with disabilities. But does a company have to go as far as letting someone nap at work?
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Tags: disability, sleep apnea, sleeping disorders, Southwest
An employee tells you he’s disabled and can’t perform his job under current conditions. Here’s how to start the conversation about accommodations — without getting sued if things don’t work out.
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When disabled employees request accommodations, they don’t always agree with their managers about the best way to proceed. How should managers handle that dispute?
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Tags: accommodation, disability, Wal-Mart
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employers from giving applicants medical tests before a job is offered — and that might include examinations used to learn about candidates’ personality traits.
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Tags: disability, personality tests
No one said supposed adults are always going to act like adults. But here’s how a potty training book and some diarrhea jokes almost got one company in serious legal trouble.
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Tags: complaints, disability, hostile envirnoment
There’s nothing easy about confronting an alcoholic employee. But here’s how managers can do it without breaking the law.
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Tags: ADA, alcohol, disability, drinking on the job, FMLA
If an employee has an angry outburst and hurls profanities at a boss or co-workers, you’d fire him or her, right? Not so fast – the behavior may have been caused by a protected disability.
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