While the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its interpretative regulations state that "written [job] descriptions are entitled to consideration," as the 1st Circuit pointed out, the ...

Essential functions are the basic job duties that an employee must be able to perform, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). An employee who cannot perform the ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — Waste Management of Louisiana will face a container technician’s disability discrimination claims in a federal trial. The technician says he was wrongfully fired after a pacemaker was ...

The job summary consists of one or two sentences describing why the position was created and why it exists, period. Essential functions are fundamental duties that an employee must be able to perform ...

Is there any aspect of the employment relationship that is more mundane than a job description? There was a day when they were commonplace in virtually every employment setting. They were used in the ...