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ADA Employment News
(Courtesy of the New England ADA Center)
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AT&T
Settles EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit (Kansas City infoZine).
AT&T Services, Inc. (AT&T), a major telephone company, will pay a
former employee $60,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by
the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced.
The EEOC's lawsuit, Civil Action No. A09CA700SS, in U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Texas in Austin, charged that AT&T violated the
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to hire an applicant as a cable
splicer technician in Austin only because of his "insulin use" for type 2
diabetes.
EEOC Sues
Princeton Healthcare System for Disability Discrimination
(EEOC).
Princeton HealthCare System, which operates a hospital
and provides other health care services, violated federal law by failing to
reasonably accommodate the needs of its employees who needed medical leave, and
then firing them because of their disabilities. According to the EEOC's suit,
Princeton HealthCare System enforces leave policies that do not provide
reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability.
Axiom
Staffing Will Pay $35,000 To Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit
(EEOC).
The EEOC charged that Axiom Staffing Group, Inc., and
Axiom Staffing Group of Virginia, Inc., refused to place Deborah Reynolds
through their Hagerstown, Md. facility because of her back impairment, even
though Reynolds had years of experience performing clerical and customer service
duties. The EEOC said that hiring officials made derogatory comments about her
impairment, such as stating that Reynolds would be "too much of a liability
because of her back."
9th
Circuit: Modifying Schedule to Daylight Hours May Be Reasonable
Accommodation (SHRM).
Earlier this year in a case of first
impression, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employee may
pursue her claim that her employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) by refusing to change her work shift after she reported commuting
difficulties based on a visual impairment that made it difficult for her to
drive at night. Now, in an unpublished opinion, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals has issued a similar decision. In that case, the court reversed a
decision in favor of an employer, allowing an individual's claim to go to trial
on the issue of whether the company failed to accommodate the employee's visual
impairment when it refused to modify her work schedule to daylight-only hours.
KobeWieland
Copper sued for disability discrimination (EEOC).
The U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on August 17 announced it has filed a
disability discrimination lawsuit against KobeWieland Copper Products LLC for
failing to hire an individual because of his perceived disability at its
facility in Pine Hall, N.C. KobeWieland manufactures and sells copper tubing,
and employs over 500 associates between its two plants in Pine Hall, N.C., and
Wheeling, Ill.
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