Duty to Accommodate, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Disability

EEOC Sues Grand Hyatt For Disability Discrimination

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 8/16/2018

Hotel Denied Accommodations, Including the Use of a Chair, to a Front Desk Agent with a Chronic Back Impairment, Federal Agency Charges - NEW YORK - Grand Hyatt New York, Inc., which operates a large hotel in New York...more

An employer’s duty to initiate the ‘interactive process’ without a request for accommodation from the employee

McAfee & Taft on 7/27/2018

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to persons with disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship or pose a direct threat to the safety of the...more

Fourth Circuit Affirms EEOC’s Resounding Summary Judgment Defeat in ADA Case

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/30/2015

In a case we have previously blogged about several times due to spoliation sanctions imposed on the EEOC – most recently here - the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a ruling out of the Middle District of...more

Supreme Court Vacates 4th Circuit in UPS Pregnancy Discrimination Case, But Rejects EEOC's "Most Favored Employee" Argument

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 3/26/2015

Since the case was argued on December 3, 2014, practitioners and clients alike have been anxiously awaiting the Supreme Court's decision in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc. That wait is over as the Supreme Court issued a...more

U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Pregnancy Accommodations

Miller & Martin PLLC on 3/26/2015

This is one of our "ones to watch for 2015" – Young v. UPS. The legal question certified by the Supreme Court in 2014 was: Whether, and in what circumstances, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act requires an employer that...more

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EEOC Sues Grand Hyatt For Disability Discrimination

An employer’s duty to initiate the ‘interactive process’ without a request for accommodation from the employee

Fourth Circuit Affirms EEOC’s Resounding Summary Judgment Defeat in ADA Case

Supreme Court Vacates 4th Circuit in UPS Pregnancy Discrimination Case, But Rejects EEOC's "Most Favored Employee" Argument

U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Pregnancy Accommodations

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