Tag: post-offer medical examinations
Rotator Cuff Tear May Be A Covered Disability Under ADA
Michael Cannon applied for a job with Jacobs Field Services (hereinafter JFS) as a field engineer for a Colorado mining site. The company made him a job offer conditioned on his passing a post-offer medical examination. During the post-offer exam, Cannon revealed to the doctor that he had an inoperable rotator cuff tear and had […]
Obesity Is Not An Impairment Unless It Results From An Underlying Physiological Disorder
An important ADA decision has come from the Court of Appeals in the Eighth Circuit in Morriss v. BNSF Railway Company, 817 F.3d 1104 (8th Cir. 2016). The case stems from a post-offer medical examination. Melvin Morriss applied for a machinist position and received a conditional offer of employment. He was required to undergo a […]
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