Employers Required to Accommodate Employees Associated With Disabled Persons
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) has long required employers to reasonably accommodate employees with disabilities. Now it also requires employers to accommodate employees who are associated with a disabled person. On April 4, 2016, the California Court of Appeal, in Luis Castro-Ramirez v. Dependable Highway Express, the Court determined that because FEHA requires employers to reasonably accommodate the “disabled,” and the “disabled” includes those assoc
