by Girish Anand | Feb 17, 2011 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) held hearings yesterday (Feb. 15, 2011) into the causes and consequences of a recent trend in hiring—the unemployed need not apply. Phrases such as "no unemployed candidates will be considered" and...
by Girish Anand | Feb 15, 2011 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced that it has received a record number of discrimination charges during the past fiscal year. The total number of charges received by the agency reached nearly 100,000, representing the...
by Girish Anand | Jan 6, 2011 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law, Personnel Concepts
Removing the stool from a cashier with arthritic knees just cost one pharmacy chain a nice lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) based on the strengthened and broadened definition of disability under 2009’s Americans With Disabilities...
by Girish Anand | Nov 24, 2010 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
In its just-released Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for fiscal 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says it is "rebuilding" and reducing its backlog of discrimination claims needing action. Though a record number of of...
by Girish Anand | Nov 8, 2010 | EEOC
It’s taken 12 months, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released its final regulations for the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The regulations will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow, and they will go into...