EEOC alleges employer refused to hire applicants using methadone treatment
On December 2, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit in federal court in West Virginia accusing two affiliated companies of refusing to hire job applicants who use methadone and similar medications as part of treatment for opioid addiction and other substance-use disorders. The filing targets Wrightway Ready-Mix, LLC and Wright Concrete & Construction, Inc., which the agency alleges together constitute a single employer.
According to the filing, the case began with John Moore, who sought work as a general laborer at Wrightway Ready-Mix’s facility in or around Delbarton, in Mingo County, West Virginia. In late 2021 and in January and February 2022, Moore allegedly spoke multiple times by phone with hiring manager J.C. Johnson about employment. Johnson, the document states, told Moore to come in for a preemployment interview and to bring any medications he was taking so he could provide information about them when the company performed a preemployment drug test.
Moore went to the Delbarton site on or about February 9, 2022, to apply and interview for a general laborer position. During that meeting in Johnson’s office, Johnson asked whether Moore had brought his medications and what he was taking, the filing alleges. When Moore answered that he was taking methadone, Johnson allegedly replied that he could not hire Moore because of a company policy in effect since...
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