Question: One of our employees has been out of work on a disability. We’ve accommodated her by letting her take a prolonged leave of absence. During this time, she also has been availing herself of both our Short-Term Disability (STD)...
Question: We run a manufacturing company. We are fortunate in that, despite the difficult economy, our products remain in high demand. One of our employees has a couple of related disabilities, the consequence of which is that he only can...
Question: One of our management employees has a spouse with some serious health problems. Until recently, this fact has not had an impact on his job performance. Of late, however, he has been distracted by his wife’s recurrent illness (understandably) and...
Question: We are a large company with operations in several states. Three of the states in which we operate permit medical marijuana use: California, Oregon, and Washington. One of our factory employees, working in an Oregon location, recently requested that...
Question: We run a full-service lakefront resort, and our prime season is starting this month. We are open year-round, but increase our staff size significantly each summer by re-hiring many employees who return each year. One of our long-time summer...
Question: We have an employee who has missed a lot of work because of various non-work related injuries, a fall off a motorcycle, a ski injury and various sore back claims. We would like to give him a questionnaire asking...
Question: One of our employees recently claimed that he is entitled to a reasonable accommodation of his physical disability (a serious back problem). We were unable to work out an accommodation for the employee (we probably did not do as...
Quirky Question #154 One of our manufacturing employees, call him Jim, was fairly seriously injured in an accident on the production floor. Jim applied for workers’ compensation and was examined by a doctor. The doctor let us know that in...
Question: I work as an HR representative in a medium-sized California business – we employ about 50 people. Recently, a situation with one of our employees was brought to my attention, and I’ve been asked how to handle it. We...
Quirky Question # 132: One of our employees has been very belligerent of late. He has made comments to co-workers that were intimidating and frightening. Some of his co-workers have considered them to be threats of violence and have reported...
Jack SullivanJack is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor & Employment group, where he focuses his practice on employment adv...
Nisha VermaNisha has delivered results for her clients with respect to all aspects of employment litigation, including com...
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Hannah GreenHannah is an associate in the Costa Mesa offic...
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