Tag: Americans with Disabilities Act

• Employment Law & Litigation

  Second Injury Fund: When You Can Ask for an Employee’s Medical History

  • November 12, 2013
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  Much to the surprise of companies who do not regularly work in Louisiana, and even a few that do, you can inquire into a new employee’s medical background in Louisiana.  But, as with everything else in the law, it is never as easy as it first sounds. Second Injury Fund Provides Employers Reimbursements for Workers’ […]

• Employment Law & Litigation

  Employment Law Eases Burden For Employees With Disabilities

  • January 28, 2010
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  Americans With Disabilities Act Protect Employees with Disabilities Since 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has protected qualified individuals with disabilities from employment discrimination in the workplace. The ADA makes it illegal to discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability of such individual in regard to job application procedures, […]