EXEMPTIONS FROM GROUP MEETINGS

These meetings can border on mental torture triggering thoughts of war crime prosecutions.  But they can also be physical torture for those disabled employees who are often required to put their normal reasonable accommodations on hold.  That is what happened at Pete Hegseth’s shop when an employee was ordered to attend a two-hour meeting even though Pete’s shop would not provide her the normal reasonable accommodations during the meeting that she was entitled to back in her workplace.  While it may only have been a two hour loss of her accommodations, EEOC recently held that violated the disability related laws and regulations. Aside from ordering Warrior Pete and his high testosterone staffers to not do that again it made Pete write the employee a check for over $11,000 to cover the damage.  This is another one of those situations that occurs all too often in the workplace such that unions should make employees aware that, absent an undue hardship, once an accommodation is provided it cannot be put on a temporary hold. For more details, check out Gaynell A., v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary, Dep’t. of War (DLA), EEOC No. 2023004297 (2026)