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In a ruling issued April 26, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed a jury's verdict in favor of a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) disability discrimination lawsuit against Service Temps, Inc. doing business as Smith Personnel Solutions, the federal agency announced today.

UPS Supply Chain Solutions (UPS SCS) will pay $95,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.  The EEOC had charged that UPS SCS, a business unit of the United Parcel Service, the world's largest package delivery company, unlawfully denied a reasonable accommodation to a deaf employee.

A Tucson-based provider of community services for adults with developmental disabilities has agreed to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. 

Miles Kimball Company of Oshkosh, Wis., violated federal law by denying Laura Nejedlo an accommodation for her disability (deafness) and then firing her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has charged in a new lawsuit.

Pet store giant PETCO Animal Supplies Stores, Inc. will pay $145,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged the company with failing to accommodate a deaf pet groomer formerly employed at one of its stores in Aurora, Colo.

Ruling Clears Way for Trial in Federal Agency's Suit Contending That Deaf Applicant Was Denied Employment in Violation of ADA

MINNEAPOLIS – Judge Richard Kyle of U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota issued an order on June 2 denying in part the motion of Hibbing Taconite Company for summary judgment in a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. 

In its lawsuit, EEOC v

Olsten Staffing Services Corp., a nationwide temporary employment agency, will pay $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced a disability discrimination lawsuit against global retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. for refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a deaf employee at Wal-Mart Store #2258 in Alexandria, Va.

Mineworker Forced To Work In Areas Of The Mine Which Damaged His Hearing Aids, EEOC Charges

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Jim Walter Resources, the world's largest producer of Blue Creek coal, violated federal law by refusing to grant a reasonable accommodation to a deaf miner and subjecting him to a hostile working environment because of his disability, according to a lawsuit filed today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The EEOC suit seeks relief

Home Décor Retailer Refused to Hire Qualified Applicants Because of Hearing Impairments, Federal Agency Charged

           

AUSTIN, Texas – Garden Ridge Corporation, a Houston-based home décor retail company with stores nationwide, violated federal law by discriminating against hearing-impaired applicants at its Austin store, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. 

     

According to the EEOC's suit, Garden Ridge failed to hire

Justices Decline to Review Jury Award in EEOC Case on Behalf of Deaf Worker

 

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity  Commission (EEOC) today announced that the Supreme Court has denied a petition  for review by Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) of a ruling by the U.S. Court  of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upholding a $100,000 punitive damages award  in an EEOC lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) on behalf of  a

Boosts Effort to Increase Number of Federal Employees with Targeted Disabilities

WASHINGTON – Giving greater presence to a pressing – and largely unknown – problem, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today launched a website section on its LEAD Initiative, designed to address the declining number of employees with severe disabilities in the Federal workforce.

The section, on EEOC's website at www.eeoc.gov/initiatives/lead/index.html, offers basic information on the initiative and on the declining number

Latest Q&A Fact Sheet Coincides with Anniversary of Landmark Disabilities Act

     

WASHINGTON – Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced the issuance of a new question-and-answer (Q&A) fact sheet on the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to job applicants and employees who are deaf or who have hearing impairments.  The new publication, the sixth in a series of Q&A documents about specific

Those with Targeted Disabilities Now Comprise Less than 1 Percent of Federal Workforce, EEOC Reports

     

WASHINGTON – People with targeted disabilities have dropped to less than one percent of the permanent federal workforce, continuing a long-term decline, according to data released today by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) during a public meeting on the topic.  Commission Chair Cari M. Dominguez called for aggressive steps to stem the decline.

   

Jury Rules Federal Express Must Pay $108,000 for Failure to Accommodate Deaf Employee

   

BALTIMORE -- A federal jury today found in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in its employment discrimination lawsuit against Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).  EEOC had charged the Memphis, Tenn.-based global shipping giant with failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to Ronald Lockhart, a profoundly deaf employee

                             

EEOC Provides Answers About Interviews, Testing,         Reasonable Accommodations, Medical Information

                                     

WASHINGTON -  As National Disability Employment Awareness Month begins, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a new fact sheet designed to educate job applicants

   

PHOENIX - A federal court in Tucson held Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in contempt and imposed sanctions on the company on June 13, 2001, for failure to comply with a court order resolving claims that Wal-Mart refused to hire Jeremy Fass and William Darnell because they are deaf, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  Today, the court approved an amended consent decree resolving the contempt action negotiated with the U.S. Employment

                                     

PHOENIX - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has filed suit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), accusing the world's largest retailer of failing to reasonably accommodate an employee with a disability at its Peoria, Arizona, store.  The suit is EEOC's

Retail Giant to Pay $750,200 in Fines, Produce TV Ad, Reinstate Deaf Worker, Provide ADA Training

             

PHOENIX - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Judge William D. Browning of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona has held Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in contempt of court and ordered the nation's largest retailer to pay $750,200 in fines, produce and air an explanatory television

       

PHOENIX - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has asked Judge William D. Browning of the Federal District Court in Tucson, Arizona, to hold Wal-Mart Stores, Inc, the nation's largest retailer, in contempt of court and to sanction the company because it failed to comply with the terms of a January 2000 Consent Decree settling an EEOC lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).  A hearing on

Also Agrees to Make Corporate Wide Changes in Hiring and Training

PHOENIX -- The U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Arizona Center for Disability Law today announced a settlement of a disability discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.  Under the terms of a consent decree, approved by Judge William Browning, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. agrees to pay $132,500 to Jeremy Fass and William Darnell, two applicants who are deaf.  Fass and Darnell, who

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today the release of a policy guidance that answers various questions concerning the application of the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to persons with psychiatric disabilities. The enforcement guidance is entitled The Americans with Disabilities Act and Psychiatric Disabilities.

In releasing the document, EEOC Chairman Gilbert F. Casellas said, "The guidance answers the most commonly asked questions

WASHINGTON -- On July 26, 1996, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will mark the fourth full year of enforcing the employment provisions (Title I) of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). During that time, the Commission has developed policy guidance to aid and ensure compliance, resolved over 52,400 disability charges, recovered nearly $105 million in backpay and benefits for charging parties through the administrative enforcement process, and informed millions

WASHINGTON -- On July 26, Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will expand its coverage to include employers with 15 or more employees, bringing the ADA into parity with federal prohibitions against employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

Title I of the ADA, which prohibits employment discrimination against people with disabilities in the private sector and in state and local governments, has a two-step