05/11/2009
Employees who cannot drive a motor vehicle due to a physical or psychological reason don’t automatically qualify for ADA protection. That’s because driving is not a major life activity. Therefore, an employee who claims that she panics when she has to get behind the wheel isn’t entitled to transfer to a nondriving position as a reasonable accommodation.
05/11/2009
Sometimes, it isn’t the rule violation that makes a supervisor want to fire an employee, but the way the employee responds when confronted. Some will lie and deny what turns out to be obviously true. Others may ’fess up. You can leniently treat those who do the right thing, while punishing the others.