Dumb move with diabetic costs company $65K
You wouldn’t treat diabetic employees as second-class citizens, would you? Of course not. But not every company has that kind of common sense.
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Learn MoreYou wouldn’t treat diabetic employees as second-class citizens, would you? Of course not. But not every company has that kind of common sense.
When an employee asks for an accommodation for a disability, the EEOC expects management to go through the full process of determining whether or not a reasonable arrangement can be made. Two health-related firms recently learned that lesson the hard way.
A lawsuit that was just filed provides a powerful reminder of ADA protections some employers — and especially their managers — may not have known about.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on June 11 released updates to its document “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws.” The guidance, presented in a Q&A format, is especially critical as more businesses prepare to re-open facilities for the first time since state governments issued stay-at-home…
A recent lawsuit by the EEOC provides another example of just how broad the ADA’s employee protections really are.
Republicans’ predicted assault on what some employers perceive as over-aggressive federal agency enforcement of employment laws may have just begun — and they haven’t even taken control of Congress yet.
There’s a little-known form of workplace bias that can cost employers big, as one company recently learned. It’s called associational discrimination.
A recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit highlights the dangers of fixed leave policies.
Here’s a nice change of pace from all those cases you’ve been reading where companies got in legal trouble for allegedly mishandling employee disability claims.
Here’s the craziest Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) case we’ve come across recently. (Warning: The ruling is a little tough for employers to swallow.)
In these post-ADA Amendment days, HR pros are acutely aware that they need to be extremely careful if they’re considering a decision to terminate an employee who’s exhausted her FMLA leave. Here’s the story of a company that got it right.
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) just issued proposed nondiscrimination rules that would be applied under the health reform law.
A new disability bias suit accuses the Salvation Army of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by terminating a cashier on the basis of his disability. Like a legion of cases before it, the suit says the events triggering the wrongful termination coincided precisely with what has proven to be a surprisingly dangerous move for…
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