by Roy Matheson, ADAC | Roy Matheson Blog
A friend and former colleague of mine who loved numbers was a keen observer of human behavior. He “came up” in the days of putting pencil to paper. I first met him in the year just after the Apple II was conceived. Visicalc may have resided in a future thinking...
by Roy Matheson, ADAC | Roy Matheson Blog
Return to Blog Page Over the decades, and as recently as the May 16, 2007 hearing of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , the issue of employment testing under the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) has focused on psychometric...
by Roy Matheson, ADAC | Roy Matheson Blog
Return to Blog Page I have written many times that, of the groups strongly affected by the 2008 revision to the Americans with Disabilities Act, physicians are the most overlooked. When I mix together my lay knowledge of the law, the outcome of recent federal...
by Roy Matheson, ADAC | Roy Matheson Blog
Several years ago I was searching for a framework that would keep me from getting lost in the complexities of a request for accommodation. I assisted a colleague in dealing with a request that was surrounded by “drama talk”. We’ve all experienced drama, it’s all the...
by Roy Matheson, ADAC | Roy Matheson Blog
Return to Blog Page The border between the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title I (ADA) is an interesting landscape. In some ways it resembles the Four Corners National Monument near Teec Nos Pos, Arizona:...
by Roy Matheson, ADAC | Roy Matheson Blog
Return to Blog Page I sit here shaking my head. I continue to be astonished that many of America’s city and county governments do not get ADA Title I. This week two cases were brought to my attention. One is a constructive discharge (fired) threat based on...
