{"id":5520,"date":"2023-08-18T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:15:12","slug":"eeoc-releases-update-to-covid-19-technical-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=5520","title":{"rendered":"EEOC Releases Update to COVID-19 Technical Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has made a number of updates to its COVID-19 resource \u201c<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/click.connect.hhs.gov\/?qs=03edfba2ee383fe8fae23c3bebea0d0c0a7854f0a6fc500b9d37386530ad4323ab361b3679703622311141bd63d96cb8240e459e28c2b14c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click.connect.hhs.gov\/?qs%3D03edfba2ee383fe8fae23c3bebea0d0c0a7854f0a6fc500b9d37386530ad4323ab361b3679703622311141bd63d96cb8240e459e28c2b14c&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1692468801456000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1NRtqhKJoTmEGUUpl2gKm4\">What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws<\/a>.\u201d This resource helps employers, employees, and job applicants understand COVID-19-related issues that may arise in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Key updates include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarifying that the end of the public health emergency does not mean pandemic-related reasonable accommodations can automatically terminated.\n<ul>\n<li>Note, however, those accommodations may be reevaluated on an individualized basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Providing common examples of possible reasonable accommodations for people with Long COVID.<\/li>\n<li>Providing tips for employers about remaining alert for COVID-related harassment of applicants or employees with a disability-related need to continue wearing a face mask or take other COVID-19 precautions at work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=5520\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has made a number of updates to its COVID-19 resource \u201cWhat You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws.\u201d This resource helps employers, employees, and job applicants understand COVID-19-related issues that may arise in the workplace. Key updates include: Clarifying that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}