Same accident, same van - so why did only one driver lose the job, the EEOC asks
Two workers had near-identical accidents. One was fired. The EEOC says the difference was her sex.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued TidalHealth Peninsula Regional, Inc. and its parent, TidalHealth, Inc., over the 2023 firing of van driver Carol Jones, accusing the Maryland healthcare employer of punishing her far more harshly than a male co-worker who made the same kind of mistake. The complaint was filed June 2, 2026, in federal court in Maryland.
According to the filing, Jones started in 2016 as a housekeeper at the facility under its prior operator, McCready Health. After TidalHealth acquired McCready in 2020, the complaint says, she became a van driver at McCready Health Pavilion in Crisfield, transporting nursing home residents. The EEOC says she met the employer's expectations.
That changed, the complaint alleges, after a new supervisor took over in 2020. The filing says the supervisor held Jones to a more stringent standard than her male co-worker, and at times tried to discipline and blame her for conduct she was not responsible for or involved in.
The key event came on June 17, 2023. The complaint says Jones was offloading a wheelchair-bound resident using a mechanical lift when the lift was not situated properly, and she and the resident dropped about three feet to the ground. Jones reported it immediately, the filing says. The employer suspended her,...
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