On May 28, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its guidance on workplace COVID-19 vaccination issues under the federal EEO laws. The updated guidance is important for employers to consider in light of the recent CDC guidance relaxing restrictions for vaccinated persons, but not unvaccinated persons, and state and local workplace safety requirements that make a similar distinction.
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On June 11, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released additional Q&As in “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws.” As businesses reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, employers continue to grapple with how to safely return employees to the workforce, particularly those employees with certain underlying conditions identified by the CDC, as well as pregnant employees and those over the age of 65.
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For more than 50 years, the federal government has required larger employers to file an annual EEO-1 report containing demographic information of their workforce. However, on May 7, 2020, in recognition of the challenges that businesses across America are facing in the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission delayed the expected 2020 deadline to file the 2019 EEO-1 report until March 2021.
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