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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently opined that “an employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it required employees to undertake a health risk assessment (“HRA”) as a condition of participating in the employer’s group health plan.” The case the EEOC based its informal opinion letter on involved a county that had implemented an [...]

In order to prove you have a disability in federal court, you generally have to be able to show 2 things:
1. You have some type of impairment.
2. That your impairment substantially limits a ‘major life activity’.
#2 includes things like walking, eating, sleeping and breathing. And now it includes sex.

Day 2 of Current Employment’s week of law firm employment suits is one of those cases that make you wonder if someone at the plaintiff’s attorney’s office just missed a question on the client questionnaire. Now it’s a cautionary tale, thanks to Legal Blog Watch.
The Story: Theresa Brooks worked for Boston’s Peabody & Arnold for [...]

A couple of months ago, Wal Mart Assistant General Counsel Miguel Rivera made it clear via a memo to its outside counsel that the legal profession was anything but safe from its policy of exporting efficiency on its suppliers. (They put a moratorium on across-the-board rate hikes, citing skyrocketing associate salaries. Really.)
Well, now [...]