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The article offers brief profiles of business executives in the U.S. It offers information on Sheridan Chaney focused on balancing a career and caregiving. It mentions that Emblem Health, insurance company is focused on partnering with local and national organizations including the Alzheimer's Association of New York. It offers information on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 that prohibits discrimination on individual with disability.

The article discusses the challenges faced by people with disabilities on the way to find jobs that are suitable for their conditions in the U.S. According to Rachael Stafford, director of the Rocky Mountain ADA Center, employers face legal challenge when they fail to engage in the reasonable accommodation process for their disabled employees. It cites the need for the employers to comply with the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The article discusses the court case Seema Nayak, M.D. v. St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center on complications faced by employers after postpartum depression of employess. Topics discussed include women with postpartum depression are covered under Americans with Disabilities Act under certain conditions; and Nayak sued the jospital because it discriminated agaisnt her after postpartum depression.

The article focuses on phobias of employees under the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), with reference of case of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Waltherr-Willard v. Mariemont City Schools related to phobia of a teacher for teaching children. It also mentions a case of 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Miller v. Illinois Department of Transportation related to fear of employee. It also mentions that the ADA requires that employers provide reasonable accommodations for employees.

The article offers information on dress-code policies in the workplace that can create discrimination among employees. Topics discussed include prohibition of religion-based discrimination under the U.S Federal law of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, proper cultural competency training for employees on religious diversity that can address requests of religious accommodations, and the Americans with Disabilities Act that demands the employers to consider the disability of a qualified employee.

The article discusses the rise of food allergies among children, focusing on the challenges facing employers with employees with symptoms at work and presents the view of Laurel Francoeur of the blog Allergy Law Project on the importance educating employees on food allergies. She mentions the need for employeers to provide reasonable accommodations for workers with allergy and awareness that food allergy can be considered as disability under the U.S. American With Disabilities Act of 1990.

The article offers legal news brief of the U.S. as of January 2017. It mentions that the decision of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the accommodation under the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the certification of CPR with the employer is aware of an employee's disability. It also mentions that court case Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, on the labor union activity of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The article offers suggestions for employers to maintain safe workplace by regulating use of legally prescribed drugs. Topics discussed include illegality of complete prohibition on workplace use of prescription medications under the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); initiation of drug testing programs and drug-free workplace policies; request for medical certification from prescribed users regarding its impact on performance; and criminalization of workplace use of medical marijuana.

The article focuses on the impact of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) decision to broaden the scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), on employers. It says that the move to clarify which illnesses make employees eligible for ADA protection, is likely to increase the risk of discrimination or other lawsuits for employers.

The article offers information on the Employer-Provided Leave and the Americans with Disabilities Act by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and suggestions regarding the same. Topics discussed include employers to provide employees with disabilities have access to leaves as employees without disabilities, avoiding legal policies which provide maximum leaves; and documentation of cost associated with unpaid leave.

The article offers insight on the employment protection given to overweight people under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Topics discussed include the employment rights of overweight employees, an overview of ADA, the commendable goals of ADA, its provisions on disability protection, and its expansion in covering nontraditional medical conditions.

The article discusses the efforts employers can make to prevent employees citing the shooting of reporter Vester Lee Flanagan II also known as Bryce Williams of WBDJ television station. It mentions the opportunities for WBDJ to handle Flanagan before his hiring, during his employment and after his termination. It presents suggestions for employers including the American with Disabilities Act guideline for handling employees with mental health issues.

The article discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act that was signed into law by the former U.S. President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990. It include comments from Lex Frieden of the University of Texas Health Science Center, regarding the same and Terri Rhodes of the Disability Management Employer Coalition, regarding the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). It mentions the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008.

The article offers legal news briefs as of August 1, 2015. Topics include the court case Higgins-Williams v. Sutter Medical Foundation wherein Michaelin Higgins-Williams sued her employer a disability discrimination after she went on disability leave due to stress, and the court case Noll v. International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) wherein Alfred Noll sued IBM under the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York state law.

The article offers information on regulations offered by of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regarding use of wellness incentives by employers and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 as of June 2015. Topics discussed include requirements under the regulations such as limits of maximum amount of incentives that can be offered according to the regulations , criteria for offering wellness programs in conjunction with group health plans and reporting of medical information.

The article focuses on the need of providing employment opportunities for the disabled with reference to the unemployment rate of workers with disability according to the U.S. Office of Disability Employment Policy. Topics discussed include views of Dana Marlowe, partner at technology providing firm Accessibility Partners, companies worried about the needs of disabled people such as adapting the office space, and the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act.

The article discusses the U.S. Court of Appeals case Blazek v. City of Lakewood wherein former streets, construction, maintenance and repair department Lakewood, Ohio's worker Jonathan Blazek filed a lawsuit against the city for disability discrimination, claiming that the city terminated him for alcoholism. It mentions the dismissal of the lawsuit by the federal appellate court stating that Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not cover any employees using substances at workplaces.

The article offers information on legal considerations for human resource management systems (HRMS). Topics discussed include HRMS combining planning, recruitment, communication, performance, training and maintaining employee information, issues related to Americans with Disabilities Act, and protection of employee information by the information technology department of a firm.

The article offers news briefs on legal aspects of employees in the U.S. as of August 2014. Topics discussed include Jane Harris, an employee at Ford Motor Co., suffering from bowel syndrome filing a lawsuit against the company under the Americans with Disabilities Act for not allowing her to work from home, and the regulations under the U.S. Affordable Care Act which demands the employers to determine their number of employees.

The article discusses various cases associated with labor rights in the U.S. It discusses the cases "Gogos v. AMS Mechanical Systems Inc." and "Ballard v. Chicago Park District." It is noted that welder and pipe fitter Anthimos Gogos was dismissed by his employer AMS Mechanical Systems after getting into the hospital from work for increase in blood pressure, but his medical conditions do not qualify as disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The article focuses on how employers can comply with three labor laws in the U.S. including workers' compensation, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. It says that employers must know the complexities of these laws to avoid potential lawsuits, along with different state laws regarding financial assistance and medical care for employees, suffering a job-related injury or disability.

The article presents news briefs related to labor laws in the U.S., as of March 2014. It presents a case, Suvada v. Gordon Flesch Co., N.D. Illinois, which says that an employer is required to engage in an interactive process with a disable employee, as mandated by the Americans with Disability Act, to identify potential reasonable accommodations. It also discusses the case Latowski v. Northwoods Nursing Ctr., in which an employee was terminated on the basis of employee restrictions policy.

The article focuses on legal issues related to employee rights for a woman, undergoing time-consuming and time-sensitive fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF). It discusses whether the Americans with Disabilities Act offers protection to the employees, struggling to deal with infertility, and whether such women can present a sex-discrimination claim, if they are fired due to the impact of fertility treatment on their work. It refers to several cases including Hall v. Nako Co.

The article presents news briefs related to labor laws in the U.S. It discusses a case related to accommodation of employees' religious beliefs, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It also focuses on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's guidance on allowing an employee to work from home under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The article focuses on how an employer can decide leave limits for people with disabilities, without violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It discusses three cases in which employers were sued for disability discrimination, and says that the ADA recommends to discuss a return date with employees, and to be flexible in deciding the date. It says that an indefinite leave of absence is unreasonable under the ADA, and nature of the business and the employee's position determine this.