Tag: disabled workers

Celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month: 9 Reasons to Hire People with Disabilities

By Mark Pound, CurbCutOS Oct 11, 2023 Diversity & Inclusion

Updated: Oct 12, 2023

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), and we celebrate the contributions of America’s workers with disabilities. Sadly, even in this day and age, many companies are still reluctant to hire people with disabilities because of the misguided beliefs they have about doing so. They think it will cost the organization money in extra […]

Here’s Why Coming to the Office May No Longer Be Deemed an ‘Essential Job Function’

By Heather R. Boshak, Fox Rothschild, Kelly L. McNaughton, Fox Rothschild Jul 18, 2023 Benefits and Compensation

Updated: Jul 18, 2023

Before March 2020, courts frequently rejected claims by workers who said they should be allowed to work from home as an accommodation for a disability. Judges routinely concluded that on-site attendance—coming into the physical workplace—was an “essential job function” and that working from home wasn’t a “reasonable accommodation” that employers had a duty to offer […]