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Remember that flatulence-cum-discrimination claim from last year? Well, it stinks too.

July 20, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Look, cut me some slack here.

It’s 1:45 AM local time in New Orleans. This is my fourth major city in less than a week, having just arrived in town from San Francisco, where I spoke with EEOC General Counsel David Lopez on LGBT workplace rights at the EEOC EXCEL Conference. Instead of doing some last-minute preparing for tomorrow’s spiel at the 2016 DMEC Annual Conference — or, better yet, sleeping — I’m giving you a blog post about the discrimination implications of farting at work.

Please send my Pulitzer to Philadelphia.

A jury will hear the ADA claim of a diabetic cashier, fired for drinking life-saving juice from a store refrigerator

July 13, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

I imagine that this juice won’t be worth the squeeze.

These sample employer-wellness program notices will make you the envy of all your HR friends

June 17, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Want to sit at the cool table next week at SHRM16? Well, I’ll be there. So, if you’d like the secret password or just want to meet a real blogging-employment-lawyer legend in person, email me. (Yes, I’ll have some swag).

Or, head over the EEOC’s website, print out this Sample ADA Notice for your employer-sponsored wellness program, and memorize the EEOC’s “Questions and Answers: Sample Notice for Employees Regarding Employer Wellness Programs.”

Then, while the rest of those nerds are Snapchatting about Strategizing Radical Change by Becoming a Disruptive Leader, show ’em some side eye, and bask in your ADA/GINA compliance.

EEOC has some new pregnancy discrimination resources to feed your HR brain

June 15, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Head on over to the EEOC’s website (here) to check out:

HR 101: The Americans with Disabilities Act and the importance of good job descriptions

June 13, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Since all of you have mastered reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this post seems rather unnecessary.

Oh, that’s weird. Why is the there smoke billowing from my blog servers?

(Although that could still be there from last Friday).

30,000 reasons to review your job applications now for unlawful questions

June 9, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

There is a growing trend across the country for employers to remove job-application questions about criminal-record history. Ban the Box notwithstanding, other common job application no-no’s continue to trip up certain employers.

Got disability-leave questions? Two greats have your FMLA/ADA HR answers.

May 25, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Folks, if I were on a deserted island with no wi-fi, but just enough battery power and 4G LTE signal to stream one compliance webinar — welcome to deserted dork island — I’m tuning in to EEOC’s New Resource on Leave as an ADA Reasonable Accommodation: A Closer Look with EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum.

9 things HR needs to know about the EEOC’s new rules on employer wellness programs

May 17, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced here that it had issued issued final rules on how the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act apply to employer-sponsored wellness programs.

So, what do y’all need to know about the EEOC’s new rules on employer wellness programs?

(No one ever accused me of burying the lede)

Are coming to the office and going to court ADA essential job functions of a litigator?

May 13, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

Are my days of free WiFi and creating deposition outlines from the McDonald’s Playplace ball pit, while munching on a McRib — ok, I two-fist McRibs — over?

If so, I’m moving to Canada.

A new EEOC resource is the peanut butter to your Americans with Disabilities Act jelly

May 10, 2016 | by Eric B. Meyer

That sounded really good in my head. Mmmm…sandwich.