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EEOC Issues Opinion Letter Holding Health Risk Assessment Violates ADA
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 [...]
EEOC Sues Strip Club for Firing 56-Year-Old Waitress. Awesome.
In case you needed proof that discrimination laws apply to everyone – and every business – the EEOC has taken up the case of a 56-year old strip club waitress who it says was fired because of her age.
It’s about time something this funny happened.
EEOC PDA Claims Starting to Show: "Don’t Call Us Fat!"
Today’s WSJ (HT – Workplace Prof Blog)is reporting that the number of Pregnancy-related claims filed at the EEOC jumped 14% last year, and are up 40% from 10 years ago.
My original assumption that there must be 40% more babies being born was apparently false. The article attributes the rise in claims to “both changing demographics [...]
SCOTUS: AARP v. EEOC’s ADEA DQ’d
Clearly a statement about the overuse of acronyms, the Supreme Court has denied certiorari in a case between the American Association of Retired Persons and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The AARP petitioned after the 3th Circuit upheld a Commission rule that employers can offer reduced healthcare to older workers and retirees once they are Medicare-eligible, [...]
Let’s play catchup…
In case you (we) missed it…
The jobs outlook keeps getting worse, the NLRB only has 2 members, TV is slowly coming back (with the right contract), it’s not a great time to be looking for a legal legal job (which is super), and the Supreme Court* decided that 401(k) participants were actually entitled to their [...]