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In late-March and April 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released guidance addressing various questions with answers concerning COVID-19 and related workplace disability-related issues under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Recently, on June 17th, the EEOC updated its guidance to include a new question regarding antibody testing.

Most of the questions…

Since it was enacted in 2008, plaintiffs suing under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ("GINA"), 42 U.S.C. Section 2000ff et seq., have not had much success. Most cases have been dismissed at an early stage.  As reported on our Disability, Leave and Health Management Blog, however, this summer the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") burst on the scene…