Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company spokesman stated, "The settlement is consistent with the practice we've been following," said Richard Russack. He also states that the companies apologized to it's employees for running the tests and they stopped all testing when to suit was filed as they were ordered.
Many in the political and medical filed and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission themselves feel this is a landmark settlement which will halt any future discriminations. "This was the right result. It gives people reassurance that the potential harms of genetic testing are going to be taken very seriously in our society," said Wylie Burke, head of the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington in Seattle. (Washington Post) "This landmark settlement provides important new protection against the emerging threat of genetic discrimination," Senator Edward Kennedy (Washington Post) "The Commission will continue to respond aggressively to any evidence that employers are asking for or using genetic tests in a manner that violates the ADA," said EEOC Commissioner Paul Steven Miller (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Newsletter)
In February 2001, shortly after the Burlington Northern case was filed, Sen. Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill to prohibit the use of genetic information as a basis for discrimination in employment and health insurance coverage. The settlement could set a precedent for lawmakers and courts to follow, Bendick said. Although hundreds of genetic tests have been available for medical and research purposes for years, it remains...
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