The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is denied summary judgment on a legal advisor’s claims of interference under the Rehabilitation Act, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. ruled. The former employee alleged that the EEOC interfered with her rights by offering an “outrageous” settlement proposal and improperly delaying processing her request for reasonable accommodations of paid leave and reassignment to a new position. The court found that she indisputably engaged in protected activity by requesting reasonable accommodations and that the commission didn’t provide a plausible explanation for delaying her requests. As such, there was a genuine dispute on whether the ...

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