The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken, and it''s not looking good for workers who hoped to claim - like a Toyota worker - that their work-related musculoskeletal injuries grant them job protections under ...

As Williams Mullen has previously reported here throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been active in providing guidance to covered employers through ...

Last month, we reported on a decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes Tennessee) concluding that an employee’s asthma did not constitute a protected disability under the ...

An employee's inability to perform his job because of the stress created by the job did not make him an individual with a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 2nd ...

Connecticut attorney Kathy Flaherty went to bed on March 11, 2020, with a scratchy throat and woke up the next morning with a fever. Believing that she might have the coronavirus that was just ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. What qualifies as a disability for employees got even more ...

(CNN) -- Wrestler and martial artist Kyle Maynard has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, traveled the world and won an ESPY Award. It may come as a surprise to some people that he's done all of it, and more, as ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act may allow an employee without a disability to recover back pay for certain violations of the law, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday. The appeals ...

The ADA was interpreted very narrowly as far as the definition of disability, but Congress fixed that back in 2008 with the ADA Amendments Act and basically said that people shouldn't spend a lot of ...

In a case involving a former inmate in a Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-to-1 decision that “gender dysphoria” can be a disability, and thus not ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits public entities from discriminating against any individual with a “disability.” The ADA generally defines “disability,” with respect to an individual, as ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic critics of mask and vaccination requirements have falsely claimed several laws exempted them from generally applied health protocols. The latest claim uses a misguided ...