EEOC Archives - Setnor Byer

27 Mar EEOC’s latest performance report highlights risk of employment-related lawsuits

Posted at 12:18h in Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI), Human Resources, Labor & Employment Law, Uncategorized

By Anita Byer, Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently released its performance report for fiscal year 2023, which ended September 30, 2023. The EEOC is responsible for enforcing various federal equal employment opportunity laws. According to the EEOC, “the agency’s performance...

26 Jul New EEOC guidance limits employers’ ability to test employees for COVID-19

Posted at 16:12h in 2022, COVID-19, Human Resources, Labor & Employment Law

By Anita Byer, Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk New guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may limit an employer’s ability to test employees for COVID-19 going forward. This is a particularly significant development as COVID-19 transmission rates surge nationwide. On July 12, 2022, the EEOC...

27 Jan EEOC Enforcement Activity Increasing, Approaching Pre-Pandemic Levels

Posted at 19:39h in 2022, Commercial Insurance, Human Resources, Labor & Employment Law, Risk Management

By Anita Byer, Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s enforcement capabilities are returning to pre-pandemic levels. Despite COVID-19, the EEOC remains committed to preventing and remedying unlawful employment discrimination and advancing equal opportunities in the workplace. The most recent Agency Financial Report...

08 Dec EEOC Updates COVID Guidance to Address Pandemic-Related Workplace Retaliation

Posted at 14:56h in 2021, Commercial Insurance, COVID-19, Human Resources, Labor & Employment Law

By Anita Byer, Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 technical assistance to address retaliation in pandemic-related employment situations. This was prompted in part by the fact that retaliation has been the most frequently alleged form of discrimination for...

27 Feb EEOC’s Enforcement and Litigation Capabilities Endure Despite COVID-19

Posted at 20:57h in Commercial Insurance, Human Resources, Labor & Employment Law, Risk Management

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its enforcement and litigation data for fiscal year 2020. COVID-19, it seems, did not impair the EEOC’s ability to enforce the nation’s equal employment opportunity laws. In 2020, the EEOC: received 67,448 charges of workplace discrimination;responded to more than 470,000...

28 Dec Can Employers Make the COVID-19 Vaccine Mandatory for Employees Under the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Posted at 14:19h in Americans with Disabilities Act, Commercial Insurance, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Liability, Risk Management, Safety

Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk The COVID-19 vaccines provide a glimmer of hope as new cases surge nationwide. It also raises some interesting questions for employers. How, for example, will the vaccine’s increasing availability be viewed in the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?...

19 Aug Do Your Employees Know that EEO is the Law?

Posted at 14:58h in Human Resources, Labor & Employment Law

Who is responsible for making employees aware of their rights under various federal equal employment opportunity laws? Employers, that’s who.Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) require covered employers to post notices...

11 Feb EEOC Releases 2014 Enforcement and Litigation Data

Posted at 13:52h in Human Resources, Labor & Employment Law

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing various federal equal employment opportunity laws. Every year the EEOC releases information about its enforcement and litigation efforts during the previous fiscal year (FY), which runs from October 1st to September 30th. This data can...

15 Mar Minimizing Risk in Self-Storage: Employment Practice Liability Insurance

Posted at 18:44h in Risk Management, Self-Storage

What the risk-management process lacks in excitement it more than makes up for in importance. Since the absence of an effective risk-management plan can undermine even the most successful business, minimizing or eliminating risk is the cornerstone of any profitable commercial venture. When developing a risk-management...

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