Birds were presented with two different stimuli (red and green key lights, assignment counterbalanced for origin and cage position): the reward was either delivered after a fixed delay of initially 10 s (henceforth FD), or after a variable delay of either 3 or 15 s with 50% probability (henceforth VD).
Although UPS maintains that the policy in effect when Young applied for light-duty assignment was legal, it has since reversed its policy and now provides light duty assignments to pregnant employees.
The weeklong digital-photography session held by the workshop, which is run by Westchester Community College out of the County Center in White Plains and a Peekskill satellite, covered all aspects of photography, from lighting on assignment to assembling a professional portfolio.
Jeff Frayler, president of the Suffolk P.B.A., also said he knew of no male officer who had been refused a request for light-duty assignment because of an off-duty injury.
The next morning, she said, she got a call from another paramedic who asked, "Did Rick make it home?" Her husband, who had a shoulder surgery this summer and was on a light duty assignment, had not gone to Elmhurst Hospital.
Nor does it prevent an employee's voluntary and uncoerced acceptance (not as a condition of employment) of a light duty assignment while recovering from a serious health condition.
An employer at one extreme — taking the long-term view and putting the well-being of its workers as a high priority — might give employees a light-duty assignment while they are dealing with an illness in their family, or avoid layoffs at the expense of lower profits when the business experiences a downturn, or pay for training to help develop a new skill.
An employee's acceptance of such light duty assignment does not constitute a waiver of the employee's prospective rights, including the right to be restored to the same position the employee held at the time the employee's FMLA leave commenced or to an equivalent position.
The department tried to bring Skiles back by putting him on a light-duty assignment as community relations officer at the Hollenbeck Youth Center, but his depression got worse and, finally, fellow officers urged him to see the department's psychologist.
