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FOMO or Fear of Missing Out.
According to Google, FOMO is “anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on a social media website.” Continue reading
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Another court has ‘weighed in’ on whether obesity is a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Hey, who just took revoked my license to blog? Continue reading
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Two of them, actually. Continue reading
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Continuing yesterday’s HR Compliance 101 theme, I revisited the EEOC Newsroom and found a recent release that addresses some considerations for when you have an employee that needs leave from work to treat for an illness.
Today’s lesson is a pragmatic and compassionate approach to providing accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Last night, after the big Sixers win over the Raptors, I checked out the EEOC Newsroom to hunt for blog fodder for today.
That’s when I noticed that four of the five most recent EEOC press releases addressed claims of disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Continue reading
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On Wednesday, I blogged, “If your job applications look anything like this, well, damn, you’ve got some ADA problems.”
“This” was a medical questionnaire that inquired about certain medical conditions, whether the employee had an impairment or disability, and whether the employee had previous surgery or received a permanent disability rating.
In other words, questions that were designed to elicit information about whether an individual has a disability.
Not surprisingly, readers asked some good follow-up questions about related ADA issues; stuff that wasn’t part of the low-hanging fruit that the EEOC plucked when it sued the employer with the bad medical questionnaire.
For everyone’s benefit, let’s address those questions today. Continue reading
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I remember once I had a colleague asked me to review an addendum to a job application for a client to make sure it was all good and legal.
It wasn’t.
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