Q: Does the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) require workplaces to change their accommodation and leave practices in a significant way?...more
7/27/2023
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Pregnancy ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Title VII ,
Undue Hardship
Q. Has the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued any recent guidance regarding employers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI)? ...more
6/16/2023
/ Algorithms ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Disparate Impact ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Title VII
The California Court of Appeals Second Appellate District recently affirmed a trial court’s dismissal of a complaint filed by a visually impaired plaintiff, alleging that a cleaning product company’s retail website was...more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York recently ruled that the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) does not apply to websites that maintain no connection to a brick-and-mortar retail location based on...more
The California Court of Appeals, Fourth Appellate District, recently reversed a lower court ruling against a visually impaired plaintiff who alleged that a credit union’s website was incompatible with screen-reader software....more
7/6/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Appeals ,
ATMs ,
Credit Unions ,
Disability Access Claims ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dismissals ,
Nexus ,
Public Accommodation ,
Reversal ,
Software ,
Unruh Civil Rights Act ,
Websites
As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to present challenges to employers worldwide, we have created this frequently asked questions document to answer some of the most common questions we have been hearing from clients,...more
3/16/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Best Practices ,
Business Continuity Plans ,
China ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Crisis Management ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Layoffs ,
Leave of Absence ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Personal Protective Equipment ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Public Health ,
Risk Management ,
Sick Leave ,
Unemployment Benefits ,
Wage and Hour ,
WARN Act ,
Workplace Safety
With more than 90,000 cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) across 65 countries, it is only a matter of time before the disease has an impact on normal business operations. However, as the virus continues its march around the...more
3/11/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Business Operations ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Crisis Management ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Leave of Absence ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Public Health ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Sick Leave ,
Traveling Employee ,
Unpaid Leave ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to review a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that held that the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to nongovernmental entity websites that have a nexus to their...more
10/18/2019
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dominos ,
Mobile Apps ,
Petition for Writ of Certiorari ,
Public Accommodation ,
Regulatory Standards ,
SCOTUS ,
Title III ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
The California Supreme Court recently issued a ruling in White v. Square, Inc. that suggested standing to assert claims against websites for violations of the Unruh Civil Rights Act will be interpreted very broadly. In a case...more
9/11/2019
/ Accessibility Rules ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Appeals ,
Article III ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Public Accommodation ,
Standing ,
Title III ,
Unruh Civil Rights Act ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
Evolving case law regarding website accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and comparable state laws continues to impact companies across the country. In the past, courts have required plaintiffs to...more
8/20/2019
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Article III ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dismissals ,
Public Accommodation ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Standing ,
Title III ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
Companies, universities and other organizations around the country continue to face an onslaught of lawsuits brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) alleging that commercial websites cannot be appropriately...more
6/13/2019
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Kroger ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Public Accommodation ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Title III ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
Q. An employee has requested that he be allowed to bring his Labradoodle to work with him. Do we have to accommodate this request?...more
Any company doing business on the West Coast must be aware of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and how it applies to their website. Now, following a flurry (if not frenzy) of cases...more
On July 20, the Trump administration published its Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which transferred to an “inactive actions” list the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) ongoing project for additional...more
8/2/2017
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dominos ,
Public Accommodation ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Title III ,
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ,
Website Accessibility ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
A majority of people recently surveyed believe that their cellphone is the first thing that gets noticed about them. With smartphones becoming a part of our identity and the convenience of carrying and using just one device,...more
12/19/2013
/ ADEA ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Discovery ,
Discrimination ,
Document Productions ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
GINA ,
Mobile Device Management ,
Mobile Devices ,
NLRA ,
Over-Time ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Stored Communications Act ,
Title VII
A majority of people recently surveyed believe that their cellphone is the first thing that gets noticed about them. With smartphones becoming a part of our identity and the convenience of carrying and using just one device,...more
12/19/2013
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Discovery ,
Discrimination ,
Document Productions ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
GINA ,
Mobile Device Management ,
Mobile Devices ,
NLRA ,
Over-Time ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Stored Communications Act ,
Title VII