If an employee’s physician writes that the employee cannot work due to a “permanent disability,” this would seem to be a sufficient basis for the employer to remove the employee from the workplace. But the 3rd Circuit recently held that such a representation from a physician would not necessarily be enough to prompt the employer’s action. Attorney Sid Steinberg writes that the ruling may have the effect of requiring employers to confirm an employee’s own representations of disability before acting on them.
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Posted on Friday, March 16th, 2007. Filed under: Employment, Law Misc
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