On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced impending COVID-19 vaccine requirements that will apply to federal workers, federal contractors, and private employers with more than 100 employees. If you are
Continue Reading What We Know So Far About President Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently updated and expanded its guidance regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and federal anti-discrimination laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Title
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Volvo Group North America, LLC will pay $70,000 and institute a three-year consent decree to resolve a federal disability discrimination suit brought by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC).
Continue Reading Volvo Reaches $70k Settlement in Disability Discrimination Suit After Refusing to Hire Applicant on Suboxone
In newly published guidance, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) discusses employer leave policies and the Americans with
Continue Reading New EEOC Guidance Details ADA Effects on Employer Leave Policies
The EEOC “must be licking its chops,” we said in our post on June 14th. Why?
It achieved a PR coup in the form of a new lawsuit against a
Continue Reading Citing “Hypocrisy“ Of The “Disability Network” For Firing Deaf Employee, EEOC Settles Lawsuit
Last week we reported about the EEOC entering into a consent decree settling a disability suit for $30,000. The suit was against a Minneapolis-area home health care provider for failing
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Our recent post on sleep apnea as a disability brought some good reader questions and comments which bear posting. One, from a Mexican lawyer, and a second, from a Canadian
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This post is no joke: not as a matter of law or of health.
Law360 has reported that after a jury verdict, a federal court has just ordered a Kansas
Continue Reading Fired Sleep Apnea Sufferer Awarded $1 Million By Jury
On October 7th we asked the questions: Must an employee who needs an accommodation (disability-related) actually request it? Or must the employer be “clairvoyant” and infer such a request from
Continue Reading “Don’t Ask, Don’t Get?” Readers Comment
Yes — that’s what an EEOC attorney said upon the settlement for $75,000 of an ADA case it brought in California against Kaiser Permanente, the US’s largest managed care organization.
Continue Reading “One Would Expect A Medical Center, Of All Places, To Be Sensitive To An Employee With A Disability”