The rules on accommodations just changed for employers — at least in Connecticut and New York (and Vermont too).

The Second Circuit (which covers Connecticut, New York and Vermont), in an important decision released last week, expanded the situations in which an employee can get an accommodation holding that such accommodations may be required even

shotYou don’t need to look for a needle in a haystack to figure out this latest case from the Second Circuit.

But you do need to know what “trypanophobia” is.

Ready? Fear of needles.

That becomes important in a Second Circuit court decision yesterday holding that an employee’s fear of needles prevented that employee from

The Connecticut Appellate Court yesterday released two notable employment law decisions. They won’t become “official” until April 30, 2013, so you have some time to digest them.  I’ll cover one today and leave the other for a future post (though if you’re really curious you can read it here.)

To me, the more interesting