EEOC Provides Additional Updates To COVID-19 Guidance

On September 8, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) once again updated its pandemic guidelines, this time to include additional information on COVID-19 screening and testing in the workplace, confidentiality, accommodations for teleworking employees and discrimination. Employers should be aware of the following updates:

COVID-19 Testing and Screening in the Workplace

• An employer may ask all employees physically entering its workplace if they have COVID-19 or symptoms associated with COVID-19 and if they have been tested for COVID-19. However, an employer is generally not permitted to ask these questions to teleworking employees because they do not pose a direct threat to the physical workplace.