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Wellness Programs
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Texas Employer Handbook
Corporate Wellness Programs: It’s Time for a Check-Up
The EEOC is back at it! This time it has targeted corporate wellness programs and is challenging the legality of such programs under the ADA. The EEOC contends that the…
Labor & Employment Insights
Minnesota Judge Issues Blow to EEOC’s Challenge to Corporate Wellness Program (For Now, Anyway…)
Can an employer require employees to undergo biometric testing or suffer penalties under their health benefit plan as part of a corporate wellness program? On November 3, U.S. District Judge…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Assistant Professor Jessica L. Roberts: Healthism? The EEOC, Employer Wellness Programs, and Discrimination on the Basis of Health Status
Not too long ago, the Department of Labor championed employer wellness programs as vehicles for both promoting public health and cabining health-care spending. Yet judging from recent litigation, the Equal…
EEOC Year-End Countdown
Minnesota District Court Shoots Down The EEOC’s Request For Preliminary Injunction Over Wellness Program
By Alexis P. Robertson On November 6, 2014, in EEOC v. Honeywell International, Inc. Case No. 14-CV-4517, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 157945, (D. Minn. Nov. 6, 2014), Judge Ann Montgomery of the…
Employment & Labor
Minnesota District Court Shoots Down The EEOC’s Request For Preliminary Injunction Over Wellness Program
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., and Alexis P. Robertson On November 6, 2014, in EEOC v. Honeywell International, Inc. Case No. 14-CV-4517, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 157945, (D. Minn. Nov. 6, 2014), Judge Ann Montgomery…
Employment Law Watch
Wellness Programs and Biometric Screening: Lessons From Recent EEOC Attacks
By Sara A. Begley, Julia Trankiem, Sarah T. Hansel
For employers, a healthy workforce can mean improved productivity, lower absence rates, and a reduction in health insurance costs. In an effort to realize these rewards, many employers have implemented…
Minnesota Employer
Court Denies EEOC’s Motion For Preliminary Injunction Against Honeywell’s Wellness Program
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota recently denied a motion for a preliminary injunction against aspects of Honeywell’s wellness program. In EEOC v. Honeywell International, Inc., the…
Beneficially Yours
EEOC Doubles Down—Attacking Employer Wellness Programs
By Mark Casciari, Ben Conley and James Napoli In its third lawsuit in as many months, the EEOC requested a temporary restraining order against the Honeywell International Inc. wellness program. …
Labor Law Prof Blog
EEOC Targeting Wellness Programs
The EEOC recently filed suit against Honeywell International, Inc., alleging that its employee wellness program, which includes biometric screening, violates both the ADA and GINA. This marks the third EEOC…
Benefits Law Advisor
Court Denies EEOC’s TRO Motion Seeking to Halt Employer’s Wellness Program
As reported in our Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog, Judge Ann D. Montgomery of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota denied the EEOC’s TRO request to…