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It’s Not Just All Pandemic, All the Time!
As New York employers struggle to reopen their workplaces, implement new workplace COVID-19 policies, manage remote workers, and deal with employees who are quarantined, afraid of contracting COVID-19, afraid of the…
EEOC Delivers Hefty Fine for Disability Discrimination
In May, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced that FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. (“FedEx”) will pay $3.3 million dollars and provide programmatic relief to resolve a disability…
The Answer is Clear—Title VII Will Protect Gay and Transgender Workers
In a long awaited landmark ruling by Justice M. Gorsuch, the Supreme Court ruled that Title VII protects gay and transgender workers. The Opinion provides: Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone…
EEOC Updates COVID-19 Technical Assistance Publication with Q&A
Today the EEOC updated its Technical Assistance Questions and Answers (Q&A), “ What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws .” Among the updates, the EEOC provides Q&A…
COVID-19 and Returning to Work: For Employers, It’s Not Too Soon to Plan a Comeback
Although the U.S. is still in the thick of the COVID-19 crisis, this is exactly when employers who are deemed “non-essential” should be developing a careful, considered plan to bring their workforces back. Employers…