To add to a very busy two weeks of employment law developments, on April 15, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final rule and interpretative guidance to implement the Pregnant Workers...more
4/30/2024
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Employee Rights ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Final Rules ,
Pregnancy ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Reasonable Accommodation
On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court found affirmative action in the college admissions programs of two well-known universities to be unconstitutional. Despite the opinion only addressing two specific college...more
8/7/2023
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Civil Rights Act ,
College Admissions ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Protection ,
Hiring & Firing ,
OFCCP ,
Race Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Title VII
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit became the first federal appellate court to find that the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) provides coverage to individuals diagnosed with gender...more
With COVID-19 cases again on the rise thanks to the BA.5 subvariant, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has issued new guidance that, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, places some...more
It has been a turbulent November for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). On November 4, 2021, OSHA announced its long-awaited ETS requiring employers of 100 or more...more
11/17/2021
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Mandates ,
Healthcare Workers ,
OSHA ,
State and Local Government ,
Stays ,
Suspensions ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing
On the brink of a holiday weekend and the return of many employees from working remotely back to the office, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued new guidance on Friday, May 28 regarding vaccinations in...more
6/4/2021
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Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Documentation ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
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GINA ,
Guidance Update ,
Incentives ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
State Labor Laws ,
Title VII ,
Vaccinations