Compliance

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    Back to Basics: How the ADA restricts medical exams and inquiries for current employees

    It’s okay for employers to ask for additional information when presented with an accommodation request, but they should avoid probing too much, an attorney told HR Dive.

    By • Sept. 15, 2025
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    HR manager’s bias concerns weren’t the basis for her firing, 6th Circuit finds

    A four-month gap between the time the plaintiff messaged higher-ups and her firing was “too long” to show causation, the court concluded.

    By • Sept. 15, 2025
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    EEOC: Cheerwine bottling company fired an employee because of her MS, despite doctor’s clearance

    The company also ran afoul of the ADA when it required the employee to take a physical agility test designed to elicit impermissible medical information, according to the lawsuit.

    By Laurel Kalser • Sept. 15, 2025
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    Kroger faces FMLA, PUMP Act lawsuit after allegedly transferring employee returning from parental leave

    An assistant store manager alleged retaliation and a lack of accommodations for pregnancy and pumping.

    By • Sept. 12, 2025
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    UPS worker’s age, sex bias claims can’t overcome company’s harassment findings

    The plaintiff alleged he was fired just two months shy of his retirement plan vesting, but a female co-worker reported an “unsettling experience” during a training session with him.

    By • Sept. 12, 2025
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    8 religious rights stories that define summer 2025

    Employees are filing a variety of lawsuits that challenge workplace policies and bring sensitive issues like bodily autonomy, respect for others and free expression to the fore.

    By • Sept. 11, 2025
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    HR records in the cloud can create a perfect storm

    A management-side attorney says she is increasingly seeing cases where decisive documents — ones that could have resolved a dispute early — were not retained.

    By Karina B. Sterman, Esq. • Sept. 11, 2025
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    FTC warns healthcare companies about restrictive noncompete contracts

    FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has sent letters to an unspecified number of large healthcare employers and staffing firms asking them to review their employment contracts.

    By Rebecca Pifer • Sept. 11, 2025
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    Texas A&M fires professor after viral video, raising free speech concerns

    The termination came the day after a state lawmaker shared the clip and accused the professor of perpetuating "DEI and LGBTQ indoctrination.”

    By Laura Spitalniak • Sept. 11, 2025
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    Appeals court rules that Georgia county can exclude gender-affirming surgeries from insurance coverage

    In a rehearing, the court reversed its May 2024 opinion, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial U.S. v. Skrmetti decision from June. 

    By • Sept. 10, 2025
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    Opinion

    Earned wage access should be free

    “This industry simply cannot continue to charge employees to access their pay,” writes a fintech founder. “We cannot expect employers to deduct these fees from paychecks through payroll.”

    By Jason Lee • Sept. 10, 2025
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    Merck manager’s awkward whispers didn’t constitute harassment, judge rules

    The plaintiff, who spoke with a “heavy African accent,” said a manager’s comment that his voice is “very specific” was discriminatory.

    By • Sept. 10, 2025
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    6 labor and employment issues that are in flux, according to law firm Littler

    “In less than nine months, the new administration has transformed more than six decades of labor and employment policy,” Littler Workplace Policy Institute experts said.

    By • Sept. 9, 2025
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    Bojangles told worker she was ‘not a good fit’ because of pregnancy, disability, per lawsuit

    Employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to workers who are pregnant or have a disability, unless doing so would pose an undue hardship.

    By • Sept. 9, 2025
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    Judge tosses EEOC long COVID lawsuit, finding worker never made disability clear

    Use of leave as a disability accommodation is often a thorny issue for employers to navigate.

    By • Sept. 8, 2025
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    FTC drops Biden-era noncompete ban but promises continued enforcement

    Industries “plagued by thickets of noncompete agreements” will soon see warning letters from the agency, its chairman said Friday.

    By • Sept. 8, 2025
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    3M successfully showed undue hardship in religious bias vaccination case

    The company established it would become less competitive if employees who promote its medical devices could not work in person at healthcare facilities, according to a court ruling.

    By Laurel Kalser • Sept. 8, 2025
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    Firefighters’ vaccine exemption lawsuit fails SCOTUS’ updated religious test, court says

    The lawsuit is a test of the high court’s Groff v. DeJoy precedent, which clarified the standard by which religious accommodations must be evaluated.

    By • Sept. 5, 2025
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    Former EEOC employee files charge alleging transgender bias at the agency

    The employee said he was allegedly forced to “create business processes and technical tools that were being weaponized to facilitate discrimination against transgender employees” like himself.

    By • Sept. 5, 2025
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    This week in 5 numbers: Workers aren’t surprised by executives’ affairs

    Here’s a roundup of numbers from the last week of HR news — including how many HR professionals expect to see their department head count grow or remain the same.

    By • Sept. 4, 2025
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    DOL says it’s thinking about overtime as it provides timelines for regulations

    The agency published its full Spring 2025 regulatory agenda Thursday, nearly a month after apparently removing an earlier version from a White House website.

    By • Sept. 4, 2025
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    Judge expands pregnancy law exceptions for Catholic bishop group

    The group cannot be required “to make accommodations for abortions, contraception, sterilization, artificial reproductive technologies, or surrogacy” in violation of their religious beliefs, the court said. 

    By • Sept. 4, 2025
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    Colorado delays AI law implementation amid backlash

    The move comes amid a growing national debate over AI laws that are piling up at the state level, creating a complex patchwork of requirements for businesses.

    By Alexei Alexis • Sept. 3, 2025
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    Manager’s ‘single ethnic slur’ not enough to grant worker win in bias case

    The case involves a legal doctrine — cat’s paw theory — invoked by federal courts in numerous employment discrimination challenges.

    By • Sept. 3, 2025
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    Jury finds in favor of Chicago transit worker denied COVID-19 vaccine exemption

    The case is similar to that of another Catholic worker who cited the vaccine’s use of aborted fetal cells in her request for a religious exemption.

    By • Sept. 2, 2025