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Facing heavy pressure from the Obama Administration and disability advocates, Oregon Governor John Kitzbhaber issued a 15-page executive order April 11 stating that the state will stop funding its system of sheltered workshops by 2015.
“(The order) sets forth a …
The front man of the Obama’s Administration’s efforts to enforce disability discrimination laws was nominated by the the President on March 18 to be the next head of the Department of Labor, much to the delight of disability rights advocates.…
In a case with potentially far reaching implications for employment discrimination claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit revived a case March 4 in which an employer disciplined an employee whom repeatedly showed up to work …
A district court upheld a company’s random alcohol and drug testing policy on February 20 that the the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission contended did not fall under the “business necessity exception” to the Americans with Disabilities Act’s broad ban …
Dilliard’s Inc. and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a settlement December 18, requiring the department store to pay $2 million to employees who were fired for refusing to disclose confidential medical information as part of the company’s sick-leave policy.…
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of Iowa has ordered Hill County Farms to pay $1.3 million in back payments to workers with disabilities who worked at a turkey plant whom it contracted with, Henry’s Turkey Services, …
Under a new bill introduced by Sens. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), titled the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, employers would be required to provide “reasonable accommodations” to women during pregnancy, such as reassigning heavy lifting tasks …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled September 7 that United Airlines must reassign employees, whose disability prevents them from continuing their previous job, to new positions as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act.…
Abused men with disabilities awarded record-breaking $240 million verdict
In the largest verdict in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s history, an Iowa jury awarded $240 millon to 32 men with disabilities who were abused for decades at Henry’s Turkey Service in Atalissa, Iowa.
“These men suffered isolation and exploitation …