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).
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Health Care Staffing Company’s Refusal To Hire HIV+ Candidate Results In Settlement With EEOC For $85,000
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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Testing Job Applicants For Carpal Tunnel Violates ADA: EEOC Lawsuit
An Illinois manufacturer of steel castings for the rail industry was just sued by the EEOC for allegedly violating the ADA. The EEOC alleges that the company illegally asks job
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Critical Care Hospital Which Fired Nurse Who Needed Chemotherapy Settles With EEOC
If you were a critical care hospital would you fire a nurse with cancer who asked for an accommodation to get chemotherapy? Even if you had meritorious grounds, would you
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Another GINA Class Action Settled By The EEOC
Another employer has settled a GINA class action brought by the EEOC – for $187,500.
The EEOC told a Practising Law Institute conference two years ago of a number of
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Don’t Forget “Perception” Of Disability Provision Of ADA
Complying with the ADA in hiring (and in the workplace) means not only “treating people equally despite whatever physical challenges they may face” (as per the EEOC), but also not
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Toronto Seminar On Managing Disabled Employees: Free!
Our Canadian employers may be interested that on November 3, 2014, Doug MacLeod of The MacLeod Law Firm in Toronto will be co-hosting a seminar on managing disabled employees.
As
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Two More ADA Lawsuits Filed By The EEOC: Guess Which Companies Got Sued?
Here we go again – another couple of heath care facilities sued by the EEOC under the ADA. Do you think it is merely a coincidence that such a large
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Pulmonary Technologist With Usher’s Syndrome Fired By Health Care Provider Settles EEOC Suit For $180,000
The EEOC filed a lawsuit last year which alleged that a leading health care provider in Maryland violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), by failing to provide a reasonable
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Obesity: Merely “Undesirable” And “Unprofessional,” Like A Neon Green Mohawk, Or A Disability?
An Alabama field salesperson for a provider of hospice services to the termimally ill sued her former employer under the ADA claiming that she was fired “on the basis of
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