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It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more
Settles Federal Charges That Industrial Manufacturing and Service Company and Its Subsidiary Subjected Applicant to Discrimination Because of His Disabilities - BEAUMONT, Texas – The Modern Group, Ltd. (TMG), headquartered...more
Programs to Hire and Aid Federal Workers With Disabilities May Be Little Known and Underused - WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released two reports on people with disabilities in...more
Federal Agency Charges Property Management Companies With Revoking Job Offer From Woman With Breast Cancer - BOSTON – Atlantic Properties Management Corporation and its affiliate, Diversified Funding, Inc., property...more
Remote Technology Company Settles EEOC Lawsuit Alleging it Refused to Accommodate and Hire a Deaf Applicant - BOSTON – Remote-first global technology company Digital Arbitrage, Inc., doing business as Cloudbeds, will pay...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere and is being used in virtually all industries. A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management last year found that almost 25% of employers use AI to make employment-related...more
Recovery Center Fired and Refused to Hire People Because of Their Disabilities, and Subjected Applicants to Impermissible Medical Inquiries, Federal Agency Charges - INDIANAPOLIS — The Phoenix Center Inc., a mental health...more
Trucking Company Revoked Offer of Employment Because of Applicant’s Back Pain History, Federal Agency Charges - NEW ORLEANS – Trico Transportation Services, Inc., a logistics management and specialty hauling company,...more
On July 26, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued updated guidance, Visual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act, addressing how the Americans with Disabilities...more
Federal workplace officials recently clarified the responsibilities that employers using artificial intelligence have when it comes to applicants and workers with vision impairments, further adjusting existing legal...more
On July 26, 2023, the EEOC issued updated guidance about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and employees and applicants with visual disabilities....more
Settles Federal Charges Company Subjected Job Applicants to Disability Discrimination Because of Perceived Back Impairments - HOUSTON – Lion Elastomers, LLC, a manufacturing plant in Port Neches, Texas, agreed to pay...more
The ADA requires employers to make “reasonable accommodations” to its disabled employees including “reassignment to vacant positions.” More than twenty years ago, however, the Supreme Court held that if another employee “is...more
On January 24, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released an updated resource document titled “Hearing Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” explaining how the...more
In January 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) released an updated resource document, “Hearing Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act” (the “Update”), which explains...more
Individuals with a variety of hearing conditions may have disabilities covered by the ADA. Pre-job offer disability-related questions can violate the ADA, but certain questions regarding the ability of a candidate to...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a new mandatory “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster....more
Staffing Company Rescinded Job Offer For Applicant With One Hand, Federal Agency Charges - OREM, Utah – An Orem, Utah branch of Elwood Staffing Services, a nationwide staffing company, will pay $77,500 and furnish other...more
Staffing Company Failed to Refer Applicant because She is Deaf, Federal Agency Says - BALTIMORE – Lyneer Staffing, LLC, a leading national staffing agency, violated federal law when it failed to refer an applicant for a...more
Paper Company Applicant Denied Job Because of ADHD Medication, Federal Agency Charged - DALLAS – Memphis-based International Paper Co. will pay $65,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit...more
Federal Agency Alleges the Marine Services Company Refused to Hire or Accommodate Worker Because of His Prescribed Medication - NEW ORLEANS – Eagle Marine Services Electrical & Refrigeration, LLC, a marine services company...more
Throughout recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) software in the recruitment and hiring of employees has rapidly increased in popularity. AI software has gained traction as a valuable tool in streamlining...more
On Tuesday, the EEOC once again updated its COVID-19 technical assistance Guidance, “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws,” adding updates for 15 items. While the...more
On May 12, 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) released a new technical assistance document to address concerns over the use of algorithmic software and AI in the hiring process. In this document, the...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help streamline business processes making workers more efficient and driving costs down for the consumer. What happens, though, when an employer uses AI in hiring decisions?...more