Jackson Lewis: California Court of Appeal Expands FEHA’s Reasonable Accommodation Requirements to Employees Who are Associated with a Person with Disabilities | Practical Law

Jackson Lewis: California Court of Appeal Expands FEHA’s Reasonable Accommodation Requirements to Employees Who are Associated with a Person with Disabilities | Practical Law

This Law Firm Publication by Jackson Lewis P.C. addresses Castro-Ramirezv. Dependable Highway Express, Inc., in which the California Court of Appeal held that the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employeewho is associated with an individual with a disability. An employee, whose request to be home in the evenings to administer his son's dialysis treatment had been granted for three years, sued his former employer for terminating his employment when he refused to take a new evening shift assignment. The Court of Appeal held that the employee's association with his disabled son was itself a disability under FEHA and must be accommodated. Update: On November 30, 2016, the California Supreme Court denied the employer's petition for review of the Court of Appeal's decision.

Jackson Lewis: California Court of Appeal Expands FEHA’s Reasonable Accommodation Requirements to Employees Who are Associated with a Person with Disabilities

by Jackson Lewis P.C.
Published on 15 Apr 2016 • California
This Law Firm Publication by Jackson Lewis P.C. addresses Castro-Ramirezv. Dependable Highway Express, Inc., in which the California Court of Appeal held that the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employeewho is associated with an individual with a disability. An employee, whose request to be home in the evenings to administer his son's dialysis treatment had been granted for three years, sued his former employer for terminating his employment when he refused to take a new evening shift assignment. The Court of Appeal held that the employee's association with his disabled son was itself a disability under FEHA and must be accommodated. Update: On November 30, 2016, the California Supreme Court denied the employer's petition for review of the Court of Appeal's decision.
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