ALM Freight and LMDmax to Pay $107,000 in EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

DETROIT – ALM Freight, LLC, an Amazon delivery service company, agreed to pay $47,000 and LMDmax Corp., ALM’s employment agency, agreed to pay $60,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a deaf applicant was offered a driver position with ALM in November 2022. She accepted the position and worked with LMDmax to complete the onboarding process. When she requested an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for her first day of orientation, LMDmax responded with a text message stating that ALM does not provide interpreters and would not proceed with her hiring. ALM knew of the request and approved of LMDmax’s response, according to the suit.

“We appreciate ALM and LMDmax’s willingness to enter into an early resolution of this case that appropriately compensates the applicant,” said Kenneth Bird, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Indianapolis District Office. “The EEOC will continue to vigorously enforce federal disability discrimination law so employers and employment agencies recognize their obligations when onboarding new hires with disabilities.”

The alleged conduct violated the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination based on disability, and requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals, unless doing so would cause an undue hardship. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. ALM Freight, LLC, and LMDmax Corp., Case No. 2:25-cv-13655) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process.

In addition to providing $107,000 in damages to the applicant, the two-year consent decrees entered against ALM and LMDmax, separately, require the companies to submit annual reports to the EEOC regarding disability-related requests for accommodations and provide training on disability discrimination with special emphasis on reasonable accommodation requests. LMDmax must also provide the training to all employees of an affiliated company in India used to onboard new hires in the United States.

For more information on disability discrimination, please visit https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc-disability-related-resources.

The EEOC’s Indianapolis District Office has jurisdiction over Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and parts of Ohio.

The EEOC is the sole federal agency authorized to investigate and litigate against businesses and other private sector employers for violations of federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. For public sector employers, the EEOC shares jurisdiction with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. The EEOC also is responsible for coordinating the federal government’s employment antidiscrimination effort. More information about the EEOC is available at www.eeoc.gov.