Retail giant accused of failing to provide reasonable accommodation, retaliation
Walmart faces a lawsuit as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a case against the company for alleged disability discrimination and retaliation.
Based on a press release, the EEOC claimed that the company violated federal law when it refused to provide reasonable accommodation to an employee. Days after, the company fired her when the employee made an internal ethics complaint of disability discrimination.
How the events transpired
The EEOC’s lawsuit stated that in April 2019, an employee who worked as a warehouse unloader for Walmart’s Hope Mills in North Carolina experienced severe pain due to a neurological disability that affected her right hand and wrist.
The federal agency said that due to the incident, the employee’s supervisor suggested that the worker should apply for medical leave through the company’s third-party administrator to avoid accruing points under the attendance policy.
“The employee applied for intermittent leave as a reasonable accommodation for her disability, but the accommodation was denied,” EEOC said.
After the accommodation was denied, the EEOC said that Walmart told the employee that she could not return to work unless she provided a medical release indicating that she could work without any restrictions, which was “evidently impossible” given the employee’s disability.
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