Tips For Employers As EEOC Targets Hearing Disabilities

By Lynn Kappelman, Michael Steinberg and John Ayers-Mann (January 4, 2019, 2:33 PM EST) -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has declared, in a recent enforcement action, employers with hearing-impaired employees should be required to provide sign language interpreters as a reasonable accommodation. In its recently filed suit against Wal-Mart Stores East in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the EEOC argues that the retail giant's failure to provide sign language interpreters for two of its deaf employees violated Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act....

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