Oct 5, 2020 | By Pines Federal | Read Time: 5 minutes | Reasonable Accommodation

How Federal Employees Can Navigate Sick Building Syndrome

Using the Rehabilitation Act and the ADA to Assert Your Rights There is nothing worse than knowing you will experience adverse symptoms when at your place of employment. Many offices and worksites can induce a phenomenon known as “sick building syndrome,” or SBS, in which one or more elements of a facility’s condition habitually triggers unpleasant and harmful bodily...

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Aug 20, 2018 | By Pines Federal | Read Time: < 1 minutes | Sick Building Syndrome

Chemical Sensitivities and Federal Employees (Sick Building Syndrome)

It has become more common in our generation for people with serious chemical sensitivities to assert their rights to reasonable accommodation in their Federal Job. We have had numerous clients whom we have represented with sick building syndrome or perfume sensitivities. The main question they ask is what can they do? The good news is we have been able...

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