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We are a litigation firm in Southern California, and provide legal advice and counseling to employees. We have handled hundreds of civil rights cases involving Wrongful and Unlawful Termination, discrimination, harassment and retaliation under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) and California Family Rights Act ("CFRA"). We handle matters throughout all counties in Southern California.
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Facts Regarding Disability Discrimination at Work
The Americans with Disability Act ("ADA"), the Fair Employment and Housing Act ("FEHA") provide rights at work if you suffer from a disability, which is defined as any medical condition that makes any daily life activity more difficult. You are also entitled to leave under the California Family Rights Act ("CFRA") and the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") for you own serious medical condition. These laws are part of your civil rights and provide protection as follows:
If you return from medical leave with restrictions, your employer must engage in a timely, good faith, interactive process to determine reasonable accommodations so you can return to work.
The law provides that the employer is in the best position to determine reasonable accommodations and must not leave the employee to determine his/her own accommodations through self help measures.
Reasonable accommodations include any other open position you are qualified to perform with or without accommodations. Keep in mind, the employer does not have to create a job for you.
Reasonable accommodations include job restructuring, and a period of time off to treat with a doctor and recuperate from treatment.
An employer must provide an accommodation unless it causes an undue hardship.
Disability rights are defined by the ADA and state law.
An interactive process must include direct communication between the employer and the employee.
If the essential job functions of a position include tasks that are outside of your doctor’s work restrictions, the employer must take action to determine reasonable accommodations. Determining tasks that do not conform to the restriction is just the beginning of the conversation and if an employer does not engage in an interactive process and merely decides there is no accommodation because of tasks outside of the work restrictions, the employer is likely to be liable for disability discrimination. Particularly where there otherwise was work to perform
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