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Location, Location, Location! Employees May Qualify for Disability Retirement If They Can No Longer Perform Their Usual Job Duties At The Location Where Their Employer Will Allow Them To Work
Plaintiff Cari McCormick worked as an appraiser for Lake County. In 2010, she started to experience physical pain throughout her body and felt constantly fatigued. McCormick’s symptoms worsened when she was in her office environment but felt much better if she was at home or outside. McCormick was eventually told by her supervisors that she
Retirement for Disability – Latest Developments in CalPERS’ Requirements
Retirement for disability can already be a cumbersome and confusing process. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (CalPERS) new and additional mandates – as set forth in its March 30, 2017 Circular Letter – raises the ante. The Letter informs all contracting public agencies of the following six requirements pertaining to the disability retirement of
Due Process and Disability: What Due Process Must Be Provided to Disabled Employees
More than 2/3 of the discrimination claims filed in California allege disability as the protected category at issue. California’s complex disability laws are compounded for public agencies by constitutional due process requirements and PERS and ’37 Act requirements which are triggered when the public agency is contemplating separating the employee based on an inability to
You Say “Termination;” I Say, “Retirement.” Is It Just Semantics Or Are They Mutually Exclusive?
For every death certificate filed, there is one “manner” and one or more “cause(s)” of death. The manner is essentially whether it was accidental, natural, suicide, homicide or undetermined, but there can be only one. The cause, though, is more specific, such as exsanguination or a cardiopulmonary embolism and often times there is more than