Labor/Employment
Feb. 15, 2011
The Rise of Disability Discrimination Claims
The recent spike in disability-related claims should motivate all employers to review their legal obligations.
Diana Friedland
Bernstein & Friedland, P.C.Phone: 818-817-7570
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently released its latest charge-filing statistics, showing never before seen levels of disability discrimination complaints - more than 25,000 in Fiscal 2010 - which accounted for one-quarter of all charges filed with the EEOC that year. The level of disability discrimination charges rose faster than any other type of discrimination complaints, jumping 17 percent from the record set the year before.
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