Grocery chain Associated Fresh Market has agreed to pay $832,500 to resolved allegations that it denied a group of workers job accommodations for their medical conditions.
The settlement was announced July 12 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It comes after the agency investigated disability discrimination charges filed with it by several workers and found them to be credible. The Salt Lake City-based company engaged in a practice of disciplining or firing workers with a disability because they needed help performing their job, the EEOC said.
Associated Fresh Market also imposed a 100-percent-healed requirement on employees returning to work from ...
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