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The last six months have been a tumultuous time for employers. The pace and degree of change is creating new challenges — and ongoing uncertainty. Our Mid-Year 2025 report sifts through the volume of federal-level executive...more
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an employer should grant accommodations to an employee with a disability, so long as the accommodation is reasonable and does not impose an undue hardship upon the employer’s...more
In May, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced it was suing a Maryland-based employer for allegedly violating Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by refusing to allow an employee to...more
In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a factfinder could conclude that an employer’s six-month delay during the ADA interactive process could amount to a failure to...more
A Maryland employer recently found itself in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) doghouse when it allegedly summarily rejected an employee’s accommodation request to have his service animal come to work with...more
The FMLA and the employment rights and circumstances it seeks to protect are many times complicated and delicate to address in real-time. Employees and employers alike can find themselves frustrated with understanding the...more
Earlier this month, in Strife v. Aldine Independent School District, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employer’s delayed accommodation of an employee’s disability could amount to a failure to accommodate under...more
A recent press release from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announcing a $250,000 settlement and consent-decree resolution of a disability discrimination lawsuit may serve to remind employers of the...more
As everyone in Human Resources knows by now, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) requires employers to reasonably accommodate employees because of pregnancy and conditions related to pregnancy. In case you missed it, we...more
Employers sometimes believe that eliminating a job position instead of terminating an employee for poor performance gives them a "get out of jail free" card for purposes of avoiding legal claims associated with the decision....more
INTRODUCTION - This Annual Report on EEOC Developments—Fiscal Year 2024 (hereafter “Report”), our fourteenth annual publication, is designed as a comprehensive guide to significant Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...more
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Second Circuit”) recently decided Tudor v. Whitehall Central School District, which changes the landscape of reasonable accommodations, within the Circuit, under the Americans with...more
The rules governing the employment relationship are always changing. Laws creating new employer obligations, technology solutions making work more efficient and more complicated, and rules governing the resolution of disputes...more
Employers sometimes encounter intoxicated employees at work, but there are some compliance challenges under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when managing employees with alcoholism....more
As diagnoses of neurodiversity become more common, employers are facing more disability discrimination complaints from neurodivergent workers, according to recent data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...more
Many factors come into play when employers set work hours for employees, including such things as operational requirements or customers’ needs. On occasion, though, employees may request that their employers modify their work...more
Out with the old, in with the new! On October 19, 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its workplace poster and dubbed it the “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. The new...more
On July 12, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 FAQs and as a result, revised certain earlier guidance regarding permissible COVID-19 testing, workplace screening, and return to work...more
Employers who are conducting automatic COVID-19 testing of employees or gathering test results of employees’ families should beware: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has issued new guidance limiting the...more
On July 12, 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") updated its guidance regarding COVID-19 workplace viral screening testing. The EEOC's original position on COVID-19 workplace viral screening testing...more
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its guidance on employer COVID-19 testing programs on July 12. The update reinforces that the evolving circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic require an individualized...more
Employers are being inundated with employee requests for exemptions, not just from mandatory vaccination policies, but also from policies requiring regular COVID-19 testing. How do employers square their duty to provide a...more
We’ve been talking a lot about COVID-19 lately and, in particular, the various regulations and guidance that have come out regarding an employer’s day-to-day responsibilities: Can you require employees to take the vaccine?...more
Auto Recycler Fired Employee During Treatment for Cancer After Denying Her Requests for Accommodation, Federal Agency Charged - DALLAS – Tyler, Texas-based K&L Auto Crushers will pay $90,000 and furnish other relief to...more
On May 13, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued new recommendations for individuals who are fully vaccinated. Specifically, the CDC stated that fully-vaccinated individuals[1] can resume...more