Professor of Law and Director of the Disability Law and Policy Program Katherine Macfarlane provided Bloomberg Law with perspectives on recent court decisions on disability-based teleworking accommodations.
“Remote work is what I’m hearing about” most often, Macfarlane said. Yet some employers remain staunch in their resistance to telework as an accommodation, thinking disabled workers are getting something they don’t deserve, she said.
The disability bias cases this year show judges are taking telework more seriously and seeing physical presence isn’t required for all jobs, the professor said.