{"id":493,"date":"2020-04-23T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=493"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:11:11","slug":"eeoc-employers-can-screen-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/23\/eeoc-employers-can-screen-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"EEOC: Employers Can Screen for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)\u00a0<a title=\"Read the guidance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/eeoc\/newsroom\/wysk\/wysk_ada_rehabilitaion_act_coronavirus.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated its guidance<\/a>\u00a0on April 23 on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and coronavirus, explaining that employers may screen employees for COVID-19. Any mandatory medical test must be job-related and consistent with business necessity, the EEOC explained. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Questions about testing are &#8220;increasingly on the minds of employers,&#8221; said\u00a0<a title=\"Christopher Durham\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/christopherddurham.html\">Christopher Durham<\/a>, an attorney with Duane Morris in\u00a0<a title=\"Philadelphia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/offices\/philadelphia.html\">Philadelphia<\/a>. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In an April 17 update to the same guidance, the EEOC clarified what constitutes an undue hardship preventing an employer from reasonably accommodating an individual with a disability in a pandemic. The agency stated that &#8220;it may be significantly more difficult in this pandemic to conduct a needs assessment or to acquire certain items, and delivery may be impacted, particularly for employees who may be telecommuting.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The factors impacting what constitutes an undue hardship are going to be motivated by a vastly different operational and financial reality for some businesses than was the case prior to the pandemic, said\u00a0<a title=\"Linda Hollinshead\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/lindabhollinshead.html\">Linda Hollinshead<\/a>, an attorney with Duane Morris in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of the article, including further commentary by Mr. Durham and Ms. Hollinshead, please <a title=\"Read the article at SHRM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/resourcesandtools\/legal-and-compliance\/employment-law\/pages\/coronavirus-employers-can-screen-for-covid-19.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the SHRM website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)\u00a0updated its guidance\u00a0on April 23 on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and coronavirus, explaining that employers may screen employees for COVID-19. Any mandatory medical test must be job-related and consistent with business necessity, the EEOC explained. [&#8230;] Questions about testing are &#8220;increasingly on the minds of employers,&#8221; said\u00a0Christopher Durham, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/23\/eeoc-employers-can-screen-for-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EEOC: Employers Can Screen for COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[376,100,31,682],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-coronavirus-testing","tag-eeoc","tag-employment-law","tag-testing"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}