The cost of noncompliance. Onboarding oversights aren’t just administrative noise: A single compliance slipup carries an immediate penalty ranging from $288 to $2,861 per individual form. Equifax’s article breaks down what you need to know about redefined I-9 violations and higher penalty risks for employers. Learn more.
A Virginia jury this month unanimously found SHRM liable in a disability discrimination lawsuit involving a disability accommodation request. The jury’s verdict awarded $400,000 in compensatory damages to the plaintiff.
The civil lawsuit, Torres v. Society for Human Resource Management, filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia last December, alleged SHRM discriminated against plaintiff Fiona Torres after she was offered a full-time position as a senior specialist in its product management department in 2024. In her complaint, she alleged SHRM violated both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Virginia Human Rights Act (VHRA) when it withdrew her offer and failed to accommodate her request to bring her medical alert dog to work to manage her type 1 diabetes.
According to court documents and trial testimony, Torres, after receiving a conditional offer from SHRM, notified the HR industry group of her accommodation request to bring her trained medical alert dog to work so he could detect sudden changes to her blood glucose levels which she sometimes experiences due to her type 1 diabetes.
SHRM denied Torres’s request,...
Health care entities may be able to pay less than half the steep fines ordinarily associated with False Claims Act (FCA) violations by voluntarily reporting issues under a new pilot program launche...