ADA at Loggerheads with OSHA Policy?
Check out this interesting blog post from Frank Alvarez, head of Jackson Lewis's Disability, Leave, and Health Management practice group: Time to Revisit ADA Medical Inquiry Rules at "Loggerheads" with OSHA Policy. The post describes the EEOC's narrow interpretation of the ADA rule that employee medical inquiries be "job-related and consistent with business necessity" and questions whether such a narrow interpretation is counter to the underlying policies of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
