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Showing 3 posts tagged Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ("GINA").
Employers, Take Note: EEOC Releases COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance
Throughout the course of 2020, employers have had to stay abreast of a myriad of COVID-19 regulations in the workplace. This includes understanding the ways that CDC guidelines, local and federal regulations, and public health recommendations intersect with the Americans with Disabilities Act (‘ADA’), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (‘GINA’), and more. In addition to the existing recommendations, the EEOC has released guidance for employers to stay compliant when managing the distribution of the newly approved coronavirus vaccines in the workplace. More >
EEOC Not Feeling So Well After Loss over Wellness Program
In prior blogs, I discussed pending cases that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) was bringing against wellness programs in the interim before clear guidance was given by the agency on how to craft these programs. Wellness programs, expanded and encouraged under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), run the risk of triggering provisions of federal antidiscrimination laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (“GINA”), according to the EEOC. EEOC brought several high-profile cases against employers in the enactment of their wellness programs, highlighting the bounds of what they view as accepted policy in employer wellness programs. In what is a sure to be a setback for the EEOC, however, it recently lost one of those cases at the trial level. More >
