May 20, 2020 | COVID-19 Related Law, Employment Law
On March 23, 2020, we wrote about guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) related to COVID-19’s effect on Titles I and V of the American with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act. The EEOC’s guidance was...
Mar 23, 2020 | COVID-19 Related Law, Employment Law, General, Health Care
On March 19, 2020, the EEOC issued updated guidance on pandemic preparedness to provide guidance related to COVID-19 and its effect on Titles I and V of the American with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act. Importantly, the EEOC notes...
Feb 21, 2020 | Employment Law
On February 11, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) sued Yale New Haven Hospital, Inc., the teaching hospital of Yale School of Medicine. The EEOC alleges that Yale New Haven’s Late Career Practitioner Policy violates the American with...
Jan 17, 2020 | Employment Law
In January 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) settled a 2016 lawsuit against Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Jackson National Life Distributors, LLC, and Jackson National Life Insurance Company of New York (collectively,...
Nov 26, 2019 | Employment Law
Under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), an employer must reasonably accommodate a known disability if the accommodation would not impose an undue hardship on the employer’s business. To succeed in an ADA-based lawsuit, the plaintiff...
Oct 23, 2019 | Employment Law
The EEOC’s enforcement efforts in the healthcare industry show no sign of slowing. In the first two weeks of October 2019 alone, the EEOC settled with a medical practice for sex discrimination and sued a hospital for disability discrimination. Settlement Last month,...
