Employer Liability Issues, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Preventive Health Care

Employer Impact Guide to the Supreme Court’s 2024-2025 Term: 12 Cases That Reshaped Your Workplace, Industry, or Litigation...

Fisher Phillips on 8/29/2025

As the Supreme Court prepares for its next term to begin October 6, let’s look back on all the SCOTUS cases from the past year that impacted your workplace, industry, and litigation exposure. Here’s a quick guide to 12 times...more

Lessons from the 2020 Pandemic: Navigating Employee Leave, Accommodations, and Preventative Health Measures in Schools

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/4/2020

COVID-19 has rocked our world and changed the landscape of workplaces everywhere-including in schools. While we've navigated short-term emergency legislation and (we hope) short-term virtual learning arrangements in 2020, we...more

EEOC Provides Guidance on COVID-19 Testing in the Workplace as Employers Prepare for Lifting of Stay at Home Orders

Lewitt Hackman on 4/28/2020

Screening employees and customers prior to permitting them to enter a business has become the primary method used in an effort to prevent further spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. ...more

Updated EEOC COVID-19 Guidance: The Commission Officially Sanctions Employer Use Of COVID-19 Testing

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/25/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: In its latest update to guidance for employers in the COVID-19 pandemic, the EEOC has now clarified that employers can test employees for COVID-19 without running afoul of the Americans With Disabilities...more

EEOC Updates ‘Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace’ Guidance to Address COVID-19 Updated

Ballard Spahr LLP on 4/25/2020

This alert incorporates the guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on March 19, 2020 in its publication on “Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace and Americans with Disabilities Act” and...more

Declaration of COVID-19 as a Pandemic Changes Rules for Employers

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 3/13/2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020 finally acknowledged that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is a pandemic. That designation changes the rules for employers....more