OCR will work with the employee and the department to determine whether alternative accommodations are available. What does a signed Authorization for Release of Medical Information let OCR do?

With many employers contemplating return-to-work directives and many employees seeking and/or needing an accommodation to continue remote work arrangements, employers must be mindful of their ...

Reasonable accommodations can take many forms. They may involve altering an existing facility for use by individuals with disabilities. Perhaps a work schedule needs to be modified. Or a job may ...

it will be harder than ever before to deny employee requests for medical accommodations in the form of work-from-home arrangements. This does not mean that employers must allow employees with ...

With the rise of RTO mandates and the subsequent increase in work-from-home accommodation requests, some employers are elongating the process and scrutinizing requests more thoroughly. I believe ...

Many government employees are unaware that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) allows them to request work-from-home accommodations based on mental health conditions. This knowledge gap ...