Reorganization, reduction in force (“RIF”), merger of departments – these are only a few reasons which employers give when firing an employee – and which is frequently alleged to be
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Title VII Remedies: Not Just Money!
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There are two takeaways in today’s post.
First: Beating a dead horse, we are constrained to remind health care and medical providers, yet again, that the EEOC continues …
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Yet Another Health Care Provider Must Pay For Failing To Accommodate Disability
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An Albuquerque nursing home was sued by the EEOC earlier this year for allegedly violating the ADA. It has now agreed to settle for $145,000. (Link: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/12-2-14a.cfm).
An employee with …
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Health Care Staffing Company’s Refusal To Hire HIV+ Candidate Results In Settlement With EEOC For $85,000
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When it filed suit earlier this year, the EEOC issued a press release which stated: “Once again, an employer involved in the health care field has impermissibly allowed fear and …
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“A Health Care Organization Would Be The Employer Least Likely To Fire Someone Because She Just Had Surgery”
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This is a quote from an EEOC attorney who just commenced an ADA suit against — you guessed it — an Albuquerque home respiratory services and medical equipment company.
EEOC Now Using GINA To Target Health Care Facility
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The EEOC just sued a NYC home care services agency for asking job applicants and employees for genetic information, in alleged violation of GINA, The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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Nursing Home Settles For $35,000 — Fired Cook With Arm Limitation
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This may sound like our post of two days ago in which we recounted a settlement by a care facility which refused to hire an applicant who was deaf to…
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Care Facility To Pay Deaf Applicant For Failure To Hire
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Last January, we posted about a newly-filed EEOC lawsuit which alleged that a nursing care facility offered two part-time positions to an applicant who is deaf (dietary aide/assistant cook). The…
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ADA Suits Against Health Care Providers: One Last Comment
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One last attorney comment on our post “Why Does The EEOC Target Health Care Companies For ADA Violations? Could It Be the Companies?”
We wondered the other day what is…
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Why Does The EEOC Target Health Care Companies For ADA Violations? Could It Be the Companies?
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Our most recent post on the issue was entitled “Two More ADA Lawsuits Filed By The EEOC: Guess Which Companies Got Sued?” The title refers to our repeated posts…
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