Walmart, Inc. will pay $100,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Walmart fired cashier Stevey Wiman from its Bullhead City, Arizona, location because she had seizures causing her to miss work. Walmart’s attendance policy allows absences to be excused for disability accommodations, but after about two months, human resources personnel told her absences for her seizures would no longer be excused. Wiman made a written request for the accommodation as provided in Walmart’s attendance policy, but was fired while the request was still pending, the EEOC said.
The action violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities.
For more information, see the EEOC press release.