Pet Waste Removal Company Fired Pregnant Worker, Federal Agency Charged
BALTIMORE – Charlottesville, Va.-based DoodyCalls, a leading pet waste removal company, will pay $40,000 and provide significant equitable relief to resolve a federal pregnancy and disability discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
According to the suit, a female pet waste technician at DoodyCalls’s Rockville, Md., facility, whose duties included visiting residential and commercial sites to collect and dispose of pet waste, told the operations manager that she had a pregnancy-related medical lifting restriction and a requirement to take a brief break after six hours of walking. The EEOC said that the technician could have continued performing her duties within her lifting restriction by simply reducing the size of each load, as allowed by her job description, and as she had successfully done before the medical restriction. Instead of allowing the tec
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Veronica Villalobos, J.D., will work alongside the health system s new chief diversity officer, Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, to champion DEI efforts for the health system.
Allegheny Health Network (AHN) announced the appointment of Veronica Villalobos, J.D. as vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) late last week.
As part of the new role, Villalobos will work alongside with Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, who was appointed chief clinical diversity and inclusion officer, effective this month, to champion DEI efforts, for the Pittsburgh-based academic medical system.
Dr. Larkins-Pettigrew is the health system s first chief clinical diversity and inclusion officer, appointed to further the advancement of AHN s commitment to be open, inclusive, and supportive to all.”
Indiana School District Pay $70K to Resolve Disability, Age Discrimination Case December 15, 2020
An Indiana school district will pay up to $70,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a federal disability and age discrimination charge, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The EEOC said an investigation found reasonable cause to believe that the School City of Hammond, located in Hammond, Ind., subjected employees to impermissibly broad and comprehensive medical exams after absences of seven days.
For at least one employee who was given this test and failed, the school did not consider any reasonable accommodations. Additional evidence showed that applicants were subjected to pre-employment medical screens called Pre-Work Screen exams. Also, evidence showed that the school commingled medical information in personnel files. These actions were in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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Tick Tock. The clock is ticking and the 116th Congress has three big tasks in its waning days: ensure the federal government does not shut down due to a lack of funding, pass the National Defense Authorization Act, and get an economic stimulus package on the president’s desk. With regard to government funding and economic stimulus, as of now, the plan appears to punt those items to next week (via a one-week continuing resolution) and then roll them together into one legislative vehicle (though even this strategy appears perilous, because there is no such agreement yet at the time of this writing). While this strategy buys legislators time, it isn’t as if they have been making much headway, particularly with regard to an economic stimulus bill. Indeed, the negotiations this week have resulted in almost no substantive progress from our report last week, and the status of negotiations on all three bills appears to be gett