Comments on: For employers, how to avoid lawsuits /news/2010/01/12/for-employers-how-to-avoid-lawsuits/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:07:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: Mike McCarthy /news/2010/01/12/for-employers-how-to-avoid-lawsuits/#comment-8881 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:47:19 +0000 /?p=45456#comment-8881 Two minor revisions suggested.

In item 5., delete “Almost” in second sentence. Retaliation charges have risen to 36% in the last completed fiscal year, FY 2009. See stats on eeoc.gov.

In item 7., after the ADA phrase, you might add the following for the newly-effective Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act of 2008 – – “the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act prohibits discrimination based on genetic information and bars employers from acquiring employees’ gnetic information, including family medical history;”

The employment provisions of this 2008 law, overwhelmingly approved by Congress and signed by President Bush, became effective last November.

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