A recent opinion from the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals involving Tulsa’s American Airlines facility serves as a reminder of the kind of evidence required to establish retaliation....more
10/23/2017
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Evidence ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Letters of Request ,
Pretext ,
Proficiency Testing ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Retaliation
One of the defenses available to an employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the idea that an accommodation of a qualified individual with a disability cannot be made when the employee poses a “direct...more
The EEOC recently announced its $2.8 million settlement with Target Corp. of discrimination claims arising out of the use of employment tests in the hiring process. Discriminatory pre-employment tests like the ones at issue...more
8/27/2015
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Age Discrimination ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Background Checks ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Disparate Impact ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Ethnicity ,
Ford Motor ,
Hiring & Firing ,
National Origin Discrimination ,
Popular ,
Race Discrimination ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Target ,
Title VII
In a recent opinion by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving a Type-1 insulin-dependent diabetic, the court found that passing a Department of Transportation medical examination was an impermissible “qualification...more