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EEOC Files Amicus Brief In Support Of Religious Accommodations For Refusing Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccinations

Vincent Jackson

11/09/2023

Agency Activity, COVID-19, EEOC, Employment Discrimination, Religious Discrimination

In a recent amicus brief filed in the 8th Circuit, the EEOC has urged heightened protections for workers who object to mandatory vaccinations due to sincerely-held religious beliefs. The EEOC's amicus brief highlights the unique difficulties employers face when forced to accommodate a religious belief under Title VII. The case, Ringhofer v. Mayo Clinic Ambulance, involves two longtime employees who worked as a paramedic and registered nurse for...

Darrell VanDeusen

10/12/2023

ADA, EEOC, Employment Discrimination, Fitness For Duty Evaluations

Nearly everyone recognizes the Grateful Dead song “Casey Jones.” It was first performed live by the Dead on June 20, 1969, at Fillmore East in New York (it’s track 8 on Workingman’s Dead). It tells the true story of John Luther “Casey” Jones, from Cayce, Kentucky. Casey was a railroad engineer who drove a fast train and who died in 1900 when he collided with another train. A few days after the accident, Jones’s friend Wallace...

Vincent Jackson

09/29/2023

COVID-19, EEOC, Employment Discrimination, Reasonable Accommodations/Undue Burden, Religious Discrimination

The impact of the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling in Groff v. DeJoy, which raised the standard for employers to accommodate religious exemptions, is beginning to be felt in lower courts. Gone are the days when an employer can lawfully disregard a religious accommodation if it imposes more than a de minimis cost on the business. With Groff, employers must now demonstrate that the burden of granting a religious accommodation for an employee...

Clifford Geiger

09/06/2023

ADA, Disability & Leave, EEOC, Reasonable Accommodations/Undue Burden

Federal Circuits are split over whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to accommodate commuting or transportation difficulties outside the work environment. In late July 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decided a case applying the ADA to an employee who requested a schedule change because his cataracts made it difficult to commute safely at night. The Seventh Circuit concluded the ADA might...

Vincent Jackson

05/23/2023

Artificial Intelligence, EEOC, Hiring Process

On May 18, 2023, the EEOC released a technical assistance document, “Assessing Adverse Impact in Software, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence Used in Employment Selection Procedures Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” This document offers advice on the use of algorithmic decision-making tools that employers are more often using for recruitment, promotion and firing. The document also attempts to distinguish between...

Kollman & Saucier

05/01/2023

Agency Activity, EEOC, Employment Discrimination, Hostile Work Environment

The EEOC has issued guidance on “Promising Practices for Prevention and Addressing Harassment in the Federal Sector.” While the guidance provides recommended practices for federal government workplaces, it offers sound advice for other public sector and private sector employers. Here is a sampling of the EEOC’s recommendations that are applicable to other employers too: Annually issue and distribute to all employees, and prominently post,...

Kollman & Saucier

11/22/2022

Agency Activity, EEOC, Workplace Postings

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a new "Know Your Rights" poster (dated October 20, 2022) that replaces its prior "EEO is the Law" poster. Any employer with at least 15 employees are required to display this poster in the workplace. The new poster is two pages, with the first applying to all covered employers and the second detailing requirements for federal contractors and businesses receiving federal financial...

Kollman & Saucier

10/05/2022

Agency Activity, EEOC, Sexual Orientation

A Texas federal court judge just ruled that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) June 2021 Guidance that permits exceptions for LGBT employees from certain policies on bathrooms, dress codes and locker rooms was unlawful. In Texas v. EEOC, et al., 2:21-CV-194-Z (N.D. Tex. Oct. 1, 2022), District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, found that the EEOC's Guidance had improperly interpreted the scope of the Supreme...

Kollman & Saucier

05/28/2021

COVID-19, EEOC

In updated guidance, the EEOC has confirmed that employers may offer incentives to encourage employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine. According to the agency’s press release: “Federal EEO laws do not prevent or limit employers from offering incentives to employees to voluntarily provide documentation or other confirmation of vaccination obtained from a third party (not the employer) in the community, such as a pharmacy, personal health care...

Kollman & Saucier

12/08/2020

Agency Activity, EEOC, Reasonable Accommodations/Undue Burden, Religious Discrimination, Uncategorized

Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a new update to its 2008 guidance on religious discrimination in the workplace. Recognizing the "altered legal landscape" that has transpired in the last 12 years, the agency issued a modernized version of its guidance that covers employer obligations and employee rights. Specifically, the guidance addresses: Coverage, including when a particular religious practice or...

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EEOC Files Amicus Brief In Support Of Religious Accommodations For Refusing Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccinations

Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind: ADA Week continued

Repercussions of Supreme Court’s Groff Decision Start Appearing In Religious Exemption Cases

ADA May Require Reasonable Accommodations Related To Work Commutes

EEOC Releases Advice on Artificial Intelligence and Title VII

EEOC Issues Harassment Prevention and Response Guidance

New Mandatory EEOC Poster Released

EEOC's LGBT Bathroom/Dress Code/Locker Room Guidance Gets Nixed By Another Federal Court Judge

EEOC Updates Guidance On COVID-19 Vaccine Incentives

EEOC Issues Updated Guidance On Religious Discrimination

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