Genetic information may not be the first thing that comes to mind when employers think about workplace discrimination. However, federal law provides protections for employees based on their genetic ...

After significant delay, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued in November the highly anticipated final regulations implementing the employment provisions of the Genetic Information ...

The employee’s supervisor allegedly began using ethnic slurs after the plaintiff shared the results of a DNA test, EEOC said. GINA claims account for only a small number of charges filed with EEOC.

In 2010, Pamela Fink, an employee of a Connecticut energy company, made a new kind of discrimination claim: she charged that she had been fired because she carries genes that predispose her to cancer.