$170,000
Disability Discrimination
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Case Details
PACE Southeast Michigan, a company that provides all-inclusive care for the elderly, will pay $170,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, PACE maintained a policy that treated any employee unable to return to work following the expiration of FMLA-allowed (the Family and Medical Leave Act) leave as a voluntary resignation resulting in termination. According to the lawsuit, two employees requested a brief leave extension of three weeks or less to return to work following the expiration of FMLA leave providing supporting medical documentation for the extensions. PACE refused to consider the requests and fired the employees instead.
Additional Notes
Under the three-year consent decree that resolves the lawsuit, PACE will pay $60,000 in monetary damages to each of the two former employees who were fired by the company. PACE will also be required to train human resources employees on compliance with the ADA, develop a reasonable accommodation policy that includes examples of additional leave as a reasonable accommodation, and submit annual reports regarding any requests for leave extensions. PACE will further provide a list of additional employees who were terminated at the conclusion of their FMLA leave. An additional $50,000 will be distributed among any of the individuals who would have qualified for leave but was terminated instead.
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