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Auto Parts Co. Wants Age Claims Cut From Unpaid Wages Suit
Law360 (January 19, 2021, 8:38 PM EST) An auto parts manufacturer urged a North Carolina federal judge on Tuesday to toss a former employee s age discrimination claims from an unpaid wages class action, saying the former worker had failed to add the claims to the suit fast enough.
In a motion to dismiss, GKN Driveline North America Inc. argued that James Mebane s non-wage claims should not be allowed to move forward with the class allegations. He had not filed them within 90 days of receiving a right to sue letter from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a necessary prerequisite to asserting an Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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How Big Can the Carrot Be? The EEOC’s New Proposed Rules Regarding Permissible Level of Incentives in Health-Contingent Workplace Wellness Programs Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Many employers have established wellness programs to promote employee health and, in doing so, help counter the ever increasing costs associated with employer-sponsored health benefit plans. Often employers want to establish programs that provide employees with incentives to achieve certain health outcomes, such as smoking cessation or weight loss. Employers must exercise caution in creating such health-contingent wellness programs, which necessarily require employees to disclose health information, because the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (“GINA”) prohibit medical inquiries unless there is a demonstrated business necessity or responding to the health inquiry is voluntary.
Most of the faculty at a southern Minnesota high school canât wait to get the shots that will protect them against COVID-19. But an instructor who teaches business classes said heâs not ready to take it, and he fears that his refusal to get vaccinated will prevent him from returning to his classroom.
âMy kids are everything to me, my classroom is everything, but Iâm not going to take the vaccine,â said the teacher, who asked not to be identified by name because he didnât want to antagonize administrators at his school.
Heâs not an âanti-vaxxer.â Heâs had all the usual childhood vaccinations, and he gets a flu shot each year. But the COVID-19 vaccines feel different to him. He worries they were rushed out too fast and might have long-term side effects that wonât emerge for years.
The tech industry does not have a reputation for being an inclusive space for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) working in IT and STEM jobs. While companies have made efforts to increase diversity in tech in the past few years, the statistics still paint a grim portrait of the diversity gap that persists in the tech industry.
White people comprise around 68% of the tech industry, far outpacing representation of Asian Americans (14%), Hispanics (8%) and African Americans (7%), according to data from the Diversity in High Tech report published by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. White tech workers also benefit from disproportionate representation in executive roles (83%), while African Americans hold only 2% of tech executive roles and Asian Americans hold around 11%.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a press release on January 12, 2021, notifying EEO-1 filers that the EEO-1 filing platform will not open until April 2021..