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The decision to immediately and without warning terminate the CHNV parole program, which involves 530,000 participants, creates urgent compliance and workforce implications for employers.

The ADA requires employers to provide help to disabled applicants at every stage of the employment relationship if that assistance is reasonable, allows disabled workers to enjoy all the benefits other workers receive and provides the help they need to perform the essential functions of their jobs despite a disability. That includes adapting job training so disabled employees can learn how to perform their jobs.

You may rightly worry that posting jobs similar to ones that were eliminated could spur a lawsuit. But if you can clearly explain why you decided to reopen positions that were eliminated earlier, courts are unlikely to conclude you intended to discriminate against those who were not retained during the earlier RIF.

HR’s best weapon against FMLA fraud is to be alert to the main symptoms and how to combat them.

If you are in the restaurant or entertainment industry and require employees to wear revealing outfits at work, prepare for an unfortunate if entirely predictable consequence: Customers may harass your workers. That’s a genuine legal risk, and it’s just as serious as if a supervisor was doing the harassing.

Employees who take FMLA leave are protected from retaliation for doing so. That’s led to the mistaken belief among some employees that they can’t be disciplined or fired while on leave. That’s not the case—if you can show you would have disciplined or fired the worker even if she wasn’t on leave.

In recent years, the number of days when the temperature reaches dangerous highs has increased, and more workers have succumbed to heat-related illnesses. To help employers provide a safe workplace, OSHA has created a resource page, Heat Illness Prevention, full of preventive tips.

We use an applicant tracking system to help with screening and hiring. Until recently, we were able to link the ATS privacy policy to notify applicants of their privacy rights to the information they submit. They have now told us we need to link to our own privacy policy. Can we adopt theirs (copy and paste) as our own?

The EEOC takes discrimination against women because of their unique reproductive characteristics seriously, as a recent lawsuit settlement shows.

When conversations around workplace equity stall or spark conflict, it’s often not because someone is unwilling to engage, but because people are starting from entirely different premises. A new Pew Research Center report highlights how vastly Americans’ perceptions of discrimination differ across political, demographic and social lines.