Two more ADA cases have hit the news this week, one of which involves – you guessed it – a suit against a medical center. To repeat our mantra: the
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EEOC: Hospital Fired Employee For Using A Cane
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The EEOC just sued a Washington, D.C. hospital under the ADA for failing to accommodate, and firing, a disabled employee.
We have harped on the fact that the EEOC is…
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Sexual Harassment Of Healthcare Employee By Patient: $30,000 Settlement
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Harassment Can Come From Anywhere
We have written a lot about employer liability for sexual harassing behavior committed in the workplace not by supervisors or co-workers, but by non-employees. In…
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Ohio Hospital Fires Narcoleptic Employee
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We could devote an entirely separate blog to the EEOC’s targeting of health care providers for allegedly violating the Americans With Disability Act (“ADA”). Indeed, we have reported on this…
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Two Health Care Providers Hit With ADA Lawsuits; Cancer Disability On EEOC’s Radar
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The EEOC has just announced that it has sued a community hospital in West Virginia which allegedly refused to appoint a long-time 48-year old employee with “a back impairment” to…
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Two More Health Care Providers Sued For Disability Discrimination
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We have written repeatedly that the EEOC has its sights set on health care providers which allegedly violate the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”). We said on December 1, 2012 …
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Hospital Refuses Request Of Epileptic Doctor For An Accommodation And Fires Her
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We have keyed in a lot lately on the EEOC’s targeting of health care providers for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) — perhaps it is the way …
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Bell’s Palsy Sufferer Fired Because Employer Believed That She Had A Stroke
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We decided to blog about every EEOC disability discrimination case against health care companies so that the industry gets the message that it is being targeted.
The latest: Dependable Health…
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EEOC Targets Yet Another Health Care Company For Disability Discrimination
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Well, here to start your day is one more lawsuit brought by the EEOC against a health care facility for alleged disability discrimination. This spate of suits in the health care …
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Health Care Industry Targeted Again By EEOC: Employer Refused Asthmatic Nurse’s Request To Be Excused From Supervising Smokers
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Just last week we repeated our warning that the EEOC is targeting disability discrimination in the health care industry. Maybe it is to make a clear point that even companies that…