A company can be sued if it doesn’t accommodate disabled employees, but is it also responsible to provide workplace changes for employees’ service animals?
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Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act, disability, service animals
Managers know they can’t discriminate against disabled candidates — but they also know they need to find people who can actually do the job.
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Tags: ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, disabled applicatns
Job descriptions are an important tool for laying out exactly what’s expected of employees. But when they’re not written carefully, they can also unfairly exclude applicants with disabilities.
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When a job requires physical labor, a pre-employment physical is often a must to make sure new hires can work safely. Here’s how to give medical tests without being sued.
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As if hiring the right talent wasn’t tough enough, the Americans with Disabilities Act makes every step of the hiring process more difficult – from collecting applications and interviewing candidates to getting a new hire ready to start the job. Here are the most common pitfalls that trip up companies and how HR can help avoid them.
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Tags: ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, disability hiring, EEOC
The Americans with Disabilities Act lets companies give post-offer medical tests to new hires, as long as it’s the last step of the hiring process. And according to the courts, that means the very last step.
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Tags: ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, job offers, medical exams, medical tests
