The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to reasonably accommodate the disabilities of their employees and to engage in an interactive process when a request for accommodation is made. What is the ADA interactive process? The Equal Employment...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that large employers must include pay data on EEO-1 reports. Employers with 100 or more employees are required to submit summary pay data and total hours worked for the year as part of the annual EEO-1...
Do you have any employees with a severe nut allergy? Do you have to make special accommodations for those with nut allergies at work? In some circumstances, severe allergies can be a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As you may know, under...
Employee rights when it comes to social media is becoming a more widely discussed issue among employers. Let’s say one of your employees posted publicly on Facebook a statement that contained negative comments directed at a specific religious group. That...
If your company doesn’t typically do background checks, but you decide, for example, to hire an internal HR person who will have access to sensitive information, you may want to do a background check for this position. But since you’ve never done one for...