Kalil Unlawfully Fired Employee Because of Diabetes, Federal Agency Charged TUCSON, Ariz. -- Kalil Bottling Co., a large Arizona soft drink bottling and distribution company, has agreed to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
via Chicago Business powered by Crain's By Lorene Yue Sept. 29, 2009 (Crain’s) — Sears Roebuck & Co. has agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed the retailer violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by firing disabled employees instead of accommodating...
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The major blindness organizations, the ones whose membership consists largely of people who are actually blind and visually impaired themselves, the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and Darrell Shandrow, a university student who is blind, are suing Arizona...
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via disabilityscoop By Michelle Diament June 10, 2009 A record number of housing discrimination complaints were filed last year, most alleging discrimination based on disability. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) received 10,552 complaints in 2008, more than ever before. Of those...
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Filed under: discrimination, HUD, record number of complaints in 2008, U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, complaints, housing, Discrimination based on disability