February 01, 2021
A hydraulics company will pay $85,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it fired a warehouse worker after he fell seriously ill and his manager deemed him a "liability," the agency said Monday, two months after a Florida federal judge rejected an earlier version of the deal for being too vague.
December 01, 2020
A Florida federal judge shot down an $85,000 disability bias settlement the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cut with a hydraulics firm, finding Tuesday that the pact needs to be more specific about what fixes the company needs to implement.