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Making the Most of Virtual Meetings: Virtual meetings are becoming increasingly popular as businesses go global. They can be held using a variety of technologies, and allow people who might never have the chance to meet in person to come together to share their views and concerns, make plans, and arrive at important decisions. They save...; Tags: BNET Editorial, accommodation, logistics, phone, team, benefit, Internet, video, software; Articles 2007-10-03
Keeping Vacation Rentals Out of the Deep Freeze: As the winter grinds on, some vacation property owners begin to wish they were snowed under - by requests for accommodations. Winter can be harsh on investors who don't offer resort accommodations, but own and rent out property where winter wails and snow falls. From Labor Day one year to...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), accommodation; White papers 2006-02-23
Disability: Integration Vs. accommodation: During the Twentieth Century the advancement of medical treatments, coupled with progressive socialour inclusion policies worked to change the status of persons with disabilities. In the Western world, all citizens are valued and efforts to include as many people in the work of the communities are not only good social...; Tags: disability, accommodation, workforce; White papers 2006-01-21
United States: The ADA: More Than An Employment Statute: To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the ADA the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), two major guidances and a status report are addressed. Many people view the ADA as an employment statute. A public accommodation is a facility whose operations "affect commerce" and which fall within at least one...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodation, statute, regulation, contact center, beverage, food; White papers 2003-09-26
Recent Case Forces Employers to Rethink How They Respond To accommodation Requests Under The ADA!: This article says that employer should provide the specific reasonable accommodation requested by a disabled employee unless the employee's suggested accommodation presents an undue hardship to the employer's operations. This ruling requires employers to rethink the way they address accommodation requests from employees who work in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Reed Elsevier Inc., accommodation, Americans with Disabilities Act, job; White papers 2003-08-21

Unreasonable accommodation: The article asserts that the last thing an employer wants to do is play workplace favorites. It is certain to stir up trouble and resentment, and in some cases, it is a direct path to a lawsuit. However, some courts are pushing employers in that direction, telling them that the...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Crain Communications Inc., workplace, accommodation, job; White papers 2003-08-01
ADA accommodation Requests Should Not Violate Bona Fide Seniority Systems: A recent decision by the United States Supreme Court addresses the conflicts that sometimes occur between a seniority system and a disabled employee's request for "reasonable" accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Court held that employers are entitled to a rebuttable presumption that an accommodation is unreasonable if...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Reed Elsevier Inc., Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodation, job; White papers 2003-07-01
Hotel accommodation Survey: This is a template for hotel accommodation survey.; Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., survey; Tools & templates 2003-06-13
Preventative Measures and Reasonable accommodations: Making physical modifications within the existing work environment is a healthy start on making the workplace more accommodating for future employees who may have disabilities. Even though employers are not required to make workplace changes until an accommodation is actually necessary, they do have an obligation under Title I of...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, accommodation, disability, workplace, litigation, hiring, environment; White papers 2003-03-04
Preventative Measures and Reasonable accommodations II: Making physical modifications within the existing work environment is a healthy start on making the workplace more accommodating for future employees who may have disabilities. Even though employers are not required to make workplace changes until an accommodation is actually necessary, they do have an obligation under Title I of...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, accommodation, disability, workplace, litigation, hiring, environment; White papers 2003-03-04
What Is Your Obligation To Find accommodations For Your Disabled Employees?: The term "interactive process" sounds like something you'd learn in a computer class, but all it means is that a covered employer that has knowledge of an employee's disability and need for accommodation. Several circuit courts of appeals have instituted a concrete obligation for employers to begin the process themselves...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), HR.com, accommodation, Human Resources, knowledge, computer; White papers 2003-03-01
Stress-Free Workplace Not A Reasonable accommodation Under The Ada: The case study refers that it is not necessary for an employer to provide a stress-free working environment as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). Another problem that arises for the HR Professionals are the rising cases of romance at the work place. While the merry...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Recruitment & Selection, Americans with Disabilities Act, HR professional, accommodation, Ada, workplace, environment, job; Case studies 2003-01-01
Labor & Employment Law Update: On April 29, 2002, a divided United States Supreme Court held that employers are entitled to a rebut table presumption that a disabled employee's accommodation request under the ADA is unreasonable if it conflicts with the job assignment rules of an employer's seniority system. Under the ADA, employers may not...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Reed Elsevier Inc., Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodation, disability, job; White papers 2003-01-01
Doing It The Company Way: Employer Perspectives On Workplace Supports: From the executive summary: ‘Significant advances in the identification and application of accommodations and supports have enabled people with various disabilities to succeed in the workplace. The advances include an array of technologies and methodologies, including, alternative and augmentative communication strategies, architectural modifications, telecommuting, restructured job assignments, mentors and coaches,...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Recruitment & Selection, George Washington University, accommodation, disability, workplace, job, telecommuting, environment; White papers 2003-01-01
Proactive Policies Can Keep Older Workers On The Job Longer: The aging of the workforce, as millions of baby boomers head toward retirement age over the next decade, will mean a serious "experience shortage." To respond, employers must be proactive to keep aging employees on the job--not only with health, wellness, and disability-management programs, but also with ongoing training to...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Crain Communications Inc., worker, training, accommodation, job, workplace, workforce, Human Resources, health care, computer; White papers 2002-12-01
Managing Workers With Disabilities 2: The ADA and many state laws protect the rights of employees and job applicants who are disabled. Well written, carefully followed policies will help you steer clear of ADA violations and claims The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against a qualified...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), HR Web Centre, Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodation, disability, worker, job; White papers 2002-08-26
Managing Workers With Disabilities: The ADA and many state laws protect the rights of employees and job applicants who are disabled. Well written, carefully followed policies will help you steer clear of ADA violations and claims The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against a qualified...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), HR Web Centre, Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodation, disability, worker, job; White papers 2002-08-26
Reassignment as 'Reasonable accommodation' Under ADA: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a complex and sometimes ambiguous law, difficult for both employers and courts to interpret. One important ADA question is what accommodations must an employer make for a disabled applicant or employee? And beyond that, what accommodation amount to what the ADA calls a...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), HR Web Centre, Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodation; White papers 2002-08-21
A Human Resource Perspective on Implementing the ADA: Human Resource (HR) professionals are key players in business organizations' implementation of the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibits, among other things, discrimination based on disability in the workplace. HR professionals are involved with recruitment, pre-employment screening and testing, and the reasonable accommodation...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Cornell University, Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodation, disability, HR professional, business organization, discrimination, Human Resources, performance management, workplace, benefit, performance; White papers 2001-06-01
Silence Is Golden: telling co-workers about a reasonable accommodation: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires you to provide reasonable accommodations to disabled employees so that they can perform the essential functions of their jobs. The article says that the Human Resource Department should be prepared to handle co-worker inquiries after a reasonable accommodation is provided to another employee....; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), HR.com, accommodation, Americans with Disabilities Act, supervisor, job, Human Resources, environment; White papers 2000-10-13