05/11/2009
Even though employers must maintain confidentiality when a disabled employee receives ADA accommodations, other employees are bound to notice. For example, they might ask how the employee got a good schedule or even if she has a disability. That doesn’t amount to disability harassment.
05/11/2009
When Cristi Turpin completed her doctoral dissertation and defended it before her committee at Southern Illinois University (SIU), she assumed she had a doctorate in the bag. But the university’s computer system continued to show she hadn’t earned her doctorate. So the company that hired her then fired her for lying on her job résumé.