The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) appears to be sending a message to employers: You can’t automatically refuse to hire applicants who test positive for methadone, a medication prescribed in drug treatment programs for recovering opiate addicts.

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Tags: ADA, EEOC, methadone, recovering addict, safety sensitive job

A deaf man applied to a mining company for a job. It didn’t hire him, and the man filed a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Who won?

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Tags: ADA, EEOC, mine, near-miss, reasonable accommodation

A company that processes radioactive waste in Memphis, TN, has agreed to pay 23 former African American employees to settle claims that they were discriminated against, including being exposed to higher levels of radiation than white employees.

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Tags: discrimination, EEOC, radiation exposure

Just how tricky is it to use tests to weed out injury-prone workers without getting dragged into court for alleged discrimination? Statistics from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission spell it out.

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Tags: best practices, disparate impact, EEOC, injury-prone workers, pre-employment tests