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Accommodation mandates.
From:
Stanford Law Review
| Date:
November 1, 2000| Author:
Jolls, Christine
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INTRODUCTION
Legal requirements that employers provide specified benefits to their workers, such as workers' compensation and family leave, are virtually omnipresent in modern employment law. Some mandates are directed to workers as a whole, and many of these date back to the early part of the twentieth century (workers' compensation, for instance(1)). But other, newer mandates are directed to discrete, identifiable groups of workers, such as the disabled. These mandates...
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