The EEOC sued a Denver beverage distributor under the ADA, claiming that it eliminated a legally blind employee’s job as a driver’s helper, and refused to hire him as a night warehouse loader because it believed that he could not safely perform the functions of loading cases of liquor and kegs of beer into trucks.
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Another Staffing Company Pays a Stiff Price for Not Training Its Managers and Employees
Our entry of June 29, 2010 reported on a staffing company (Spencer Reed) which entered into a “consent decree” to settle a case filed by the EEOC under Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”). On June 15, 2010, another staffing company similarly entered into a consent decree with the EEOC, in…