Labor & Employment Law Blog

Can an employer terminate an employee whose physician-diagnosed disability (bipolar disorder) caused her to make threats of violence against co-workers without violating the provisions of California's Fair Employment and Housing Act ("FEHA") forbidding discrimination against employees because of a disability or a medical condition?  

Yesterday, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., signed Assembly Bill 36, which conforms California law to federal law to allow tax exclusions or deductions for employers that provide health care coverage to employee dependents who are under age 27.  The Legislative Counsel's Digest states:

AB 36, Perea. Income and employment taxes: federal conformity: Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The ...