
$3.3M SETTLEMENT TO RESOLVE A DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT
On May 19, 2020, the EEOC announced that FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. agreed to pay $3.3 million to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC. The EEOC brought a lawsuit against FedEx on behalf of deaf and hard-of-hearing package handlers claiming disability discrimination and failure to reasonably accommodate their disabilities. As part of the resolution, the EEOC negotiated a two-year consent decree requiring, among other things, FedEx Ground to pro

CAPPING THE NUMBER OF ALLOWABLE ABSENCES? BAD IDEA!
On May 4, 2020, the EEOC released a statement that Wayne Farms agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the EEOC on behalf of a class of disabled workers whose allowable absences were capped. Specifically, Wayne Farms was charged with violating the rights of its workers with disabilities by capping the number of allowable absences regardless of whether the absence was due to a disability. Disabled workers who needed disability-related absences in addition to the