The Employer Handbook Blog

EEOC takes on fitness-for-duty medical releases; how to avoid the crosshairs.

September 10, 2014 | by Eric B. Meyer

Congratulations!

Your fitness-for-duty employee medical examinations are job-related or consistent with business necessity. So, they pass muster under the Americans with Disabilities Act. But, what about the medical information you request from employees in connection with those exams?

Oh yeah, there’s that too…

Ask for too much info and you might you be violating not only the ADA, but also the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act.

Rut roh! More after the jump…

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A restaurant posted LeSean McCoy’s receipt on its Facebook page

September 9, 2014 | by Eric B. Meyer

My mind…blown!

Yesterday, the local internet feeds were flooding us with news that Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy allegedly left a 20-cent tip at a local restaurant at which he and some friends had lunch on Monday. The “smoking gun” was a copy of what is purported to be McCoy’s lunch receipt from the restaurant.

I read “Eagles Player LeSean McCoy Just Left a 20-Cent Tip at PYT” on PhillyMag.com, and “LeSean McCoy tips 20 cents at PYT. The restaurant, PYT, even posted about it on its own Facebook page, complete with a copy of the supposed McCoy receipt.

Apparently, the ADA requires accommodating an employee’s anger issues with a Shih Tzu named “Sugar Bear”

September 8, 2014 | by Eric B. Meyer

Hey, I don’t make this stuff up. I just blog about it.

More after the jump…

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Final Score: HIPAA 1 – Retaliation 0

September 5, 2014 | by Eric B. Meyer

See how a federal appellate court shut out a plaintiff’s claims of retaliation after she was fired for forwarding confidential documents to herself, purportedly to preserve evidence for an age-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former coworker.

What I did there, you see that?

After the jump…

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