INDIANAPOLIS — Damar Services, Inc., an Indianapolis residential services provider for individuals with developmental disabilities, will pay $65,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Damar applied hiring standards which screened out applicants with hearing and vision disabilities, made prohibited disability-related inquiries, and rejected a qualified housekeeper applicant because he is deaf, despite

FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines, Inc., a domestic and international air carrier headquartered in Texas, will pay $200,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’S lawsuit, American Airlines failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee at its Fort Worth location after she developed cortical blindness. The lawsuit alleged that the employee requested to use screen

NEWARK, N.J. — Educational publishing company Pearson Education, Inc. will pay $150,000 and provide other injunctive relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Pearson required employees to use online platforms to access information about their benefits, leave and training, but failed to make these platforms, replete with technical issues, accessible to employees with visual impairments. Pearson

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Piedmont Cheerwine Bottling Company, a North Carolina-based soft drink company with a facility in Colfax, North Carolina, will pay $36,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the lawsuit, a former Cheerwine employee took medication for her multiple sclerosis. The medication caused the cartilage in her hip to deteriorate, which caused her to walk with a limp

ATLANTA — The Kroger Co., a national grocery chain, will pay $75,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, a breast cancer survivor whose cancer treatments caused permanent nerve damage to her lower extremities was hired as a cashier at the Kroger in Atlanta’s Edgewood retail district. Shortly thereafter, the

ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Sutter Roseville Medical Center, part of the Sutter Health network of hospitals, clinics and specialty care facilities, agreed to provide $200,000 in back pay and compensatory damages along with other injunctive relief to resolve a disability discrimination investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

According to the EEOC, in April 2023, a staff nurse formerly employed by Sutter Roseville filed a charge of discrimination with

MEMPHIS — Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA), a research, engineering and consulting company based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, agreed to resolve charges of discrimination filed with U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for $5 million and other relief, the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC received multiple charges of discrimination alleging that BEA denied employees religious and/or disability accommodations to the company’s vaccine mandate policy. The EEOC’s systemic investigation found reasonable cause to believe that