EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION v. GEISINGER HEALTH et al

  1. October 18, 2022

    EEOC Disability Bias Suit Against Health System Narrowed

    A Pennsylvania federal judge tossed U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disability bias claims against a regional health care system, but kept alive the agency's challenge to the hospital network's policy requiring workers returning from medical leave to reapply for their jobs.

  2. September 07, 2022

    Pa. Health System's Reapplication Process Sound, Court Told

    A health care system sued by a nurse and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its policy of making workers returning from medical leave reapply for their jobs told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday that the practice was not the basis for an EEOC enforcement action.

  3. March 30, 2022

    EEOC Says Health System Can't Shut Down Disability Suit

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to keep alive its suit alleging a health system violated federal law by forcing workers returning from medical leave to reapply for their jobs, arguing the claims were solid enough to continue.

  4. March 09, 2022

    Pa. Health System Blasts 'Ill-Defined' EEOC Disability Suit

    A Pennsylvania health system urged a federal court to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it violated federal law by forcing workers returning from medical leave to reapply for their jobs, saying the EEOC's claims strayed far beyond what the agency's presuit investigation revealed.

  5. September 30, 2021

    EEOC Sues Pa. Health System Over Disability Discrimination

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has accused the Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System of discriminating against a group of current and former employees by failing to provide them accommodations when returning from medical leave and forcing them to reapply for their jobs.