{"id":288,"date":"2021-11-23T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=288"},"modified":"2022-06-03T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T07:39:52","slug":"eeoc-covid-19-technical-assistance-updated-with-anti-retaliation-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/eeoc-covid-19-technical-assistance-updated-with-anti-retaliation-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"EEOC COVID-19 Technical Assistance Updated With Anti-Retaliation Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/wysk\/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-ada-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=#M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19 Technical Assistance<\/a>&nbsp;has been updated (as of November 17, 2021) with additional guidance about employer retaliation in pandemic-related employment situations. Topics addressed include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Do job applicants and employees have protections from retaliation for exercising EEO rights in connection with COVID-19?<\/li><li>Examples of protected employee activities: filing a charge, complaint or lawsuit; reporting alleged violations to a supervisor; resisting harassment, intervening to protect co-workers from harassment; requesting accommodation a disability or religious belief<\/li><li>Who is protected from retaliation?<\/li><li>When do retaliation protections apply?<\/li><li>When is an employer action based on an employee\u2019s EEO activity serious enough to be unlawful retaliation?<\/li><li>Engaging in EEO activity does not prevent discipline of an employee for legitimate, non-retaliatory and non-discriminatory reasons.<\/li><li>Protection against employer\u2019s interference with an employee\u2019s exercise of ADA rights<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)&nbsp;COVID-19 Technical Assistance&nbsp;has been updated (as of November 17, 2021) with additional guidance about employer retaliation in pandemic-related employment situations. Topics addressed include: Do job applicants and employees have protections from retaliation for exercising EEO rights in connection with COVID-19? Examples of protected employee activities: filing a charge, complaint or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}