For many employees, requesting workplace disability accommodations from an employer is incredibly difficult. They fear being viewed as a trouble-maker. Still, if you have disabilities, doing so is your right and could even make you a more productive employee, to...
Disability Discrimination
Do you have a right to bring an emotional support animal to work?
Disabilities come in all shapes and sizes – and many of them are even invisible. A lot of people with hidden disabilities are able to function much better at work with the use of assistive animals. Assistive animals include seeing-eye dogs and dogs that are trained to...
Do you have to accommodate an employee’s anxiety disorder?
There’s a lot of stress going around these days, and many of your employees may be quietly struggling with some form of anxiety disorder. What happens, then, when your company begins to limit remote work again, moves everybody back into the office and an employee...
Understanding reasonable accommodations in the workplace
Suppose you are seeking a job with a disability. In that case, you may wonder what “reasonable accommodations” are and how far a California employer must go to be fair in their hiring process. While there is some confusion about what is reasonable and when you have...
Can you prove modifying work areas will cause undue hardships?
As a Santa Ana, California, employer, you probably know much about avoiding and preventing disability discrimination. You may also know that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) governs the treatment of disabled workers in the U.S. You may even know that you must...
Walmart faces suit over disability discrimination
Last year, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 celebrated its 30th anniversary of helping protect the rights of Americans with disabilities. However, despite its 30-year history, sometimes workplaces still struggle to follow ADA rules and avoid disability...