Under the banner of combating discrimination against the disabled, Congress and the EEOC may together have quietly instituted a fairly momentous extension of the regime of federally mandated workplace benefits — in particular, imposing on even very small employers a new obligation to hold the jobs of employees taking some kinds of leave. [Hyman]
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Glad someone has finally figured this out. This EEOC has subsumed the FMLA by claiming that being at work isn’t an essential function of work. Love the logic.
The previous story about regulation of hedge funds and this one about the ADA are further evidence that Washington apparently believes that endlessly increasing the regulatory burden on business is the only way to achieve economic growth and prosperity. What it will actually achieve is something quite different.
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