Company Fired Employee After Learning About Her Disability and Disability-Related Complaint, Federal Agency Had Charged
OXFORD – Valley Tool, Inc., a precision machine shop facility located in Water Valley, Miss., has agreed to pay $32,500 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The EEOC’s lawsuit charged a sorter with sickle cell disease requested that Valley Tool allow her to take leave on the occasional days her blood disorder made her too ill to work. Instead, the suit alleged, Valley Tool removed the sorter from the work schedule, placed her on involuntary leave of absence, and then fired her because of her disability and in retaliation for her complaint about her super¬visor’s comments about her disability. The lawsuit also charged that Valley Tool failed to maintain medical records separate from employee personnel files.
03/15/21
Can an Employer Require a COVID-19 Vaccination?
All across the country, states and local jurisdictions are ramping-up their COVID-19 vaccination distribution plans. We can all hope that perhaps the roll-out of the vaccines represents the beginning of the end of a terrible pandemic and the “light at the end of the tunnel” to return to some semblance of a pre-COVID workplace. As governments around the country begin to develop or implement ambitious plans to vaccinate millions of their citizenry, employers are being confronted by a number of legal issues associated with getting their workforce vaccinated.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued much-anticipated guidance to employers considering COVID-19 vaccination programs for their employees regarding their obligations under federal civil rights laws, particularly if the employer plans to require its employees to be vaccinated. While it will likely be months before a vaccine is available
what
motivated them to do what they did, such as whether to
reject an applicant or discipline or discharge an employee. That
can be a tall order.
Employment-at-will in North Carolina
lawfully consider when making such decisions. In fact,
despite the vast array of criteria made
verboten by
federal and state laws, regulations, and judicial decisions too
numerous to count, employers are typically free to hire and fire
whom they wish, as indicated in part by the long-standing doctrine
of employment at will that persists throughout the
United States.
In North Carolina, for example, that doctrine means that [g]enerally, either party to an employment-at-will
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