On September 8, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 guidance to harmonize and expand upon information provided in other forums. The EEOC updated its publication entitled, “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws,” which addresses common COVID-19 issues faced by employers in a question-andanswer format. While many of the changes simply expanded upon the EEOC’s previous guidance, the new guidance also (1) reminds employers that temperature-testing data, medical and other confidential information held by supervisors must be maintained in separate, restricted-access files; (2) states that remote work and other accommodations implemented in response to the pandemic need not be permanent accommodations; and (3) stresses that inquiries focusing on family membership (as opposed to household membership) could violate the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA).
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