Company accused of violating Americans with Disabilities Act after failing to tell worker of open positions she could have worked at in other stores.
At the time, Walmart's disability reassignment policy meant that they only searched for open positions in the store where the employee had been working."would have happily accepted" jobs in either of the two other locations if they were offered., who had worked at Walmart since 1999, left the company after failing to find a new role at the store where she was working.
The EEOC accused Walmart of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, which states that employees with disabilities must be offered reassignment to a vacant position as part of reasonable accommodations allowing them to keep their jobs. As part of the settlement with the EEOC, Walmart said it will now be changing its reassignment policies soResendez"Federal law requires employers to reassign employees with a disability to vacant positions as the reasonable accommodation of last resort," said Jeffrey"We are very pleased that this lawsuit, which arose from a single employee's complaint, resulted in the nationwide change we sought, and we applaud Walmart for making that change.
EEOC New York District Director Kevin Berry added:"Employers cannot refuse to offer a reasonable accommodation required by law absent undue hardship. This case demonstrates that looking beyond the home store for a vacant position is not an undue hardship."
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