WASHINGTON – TrueBlue, Inc. and PeopleReady, Inc., labor sourcing companies with offices across the United States, will pay $125,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to resolve a federal disability discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the companies fired an employee because of her psychiatric disability. The employee, who worked at the Manassas, Virginia office of TrueBlue’s subsidiary, PeopleReady, was not permitted to return to work after being medically cleared to do so following a hospitalization for her disability. The suit further alleged that the companies terminated the employee because she required future intermittent leave for outpatient medical appointments.
Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities and prohibits employers from taking adverse employment actions based on an individual's disability or need for accommodations. The EEOC filed suit (Civil Action No.1:21-cv-01098) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its voluntary administrative conciliation process.
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