EEOC, Prestige Care’s $2 Million Pact Ends Disability Bias Suit

Prestige Care Inc. will pay $2 million and revamp its job accommodation processes to settle an EEOC lawsuit alleging Prestige and its related companies operated an illegal “100 percent healed/100 percent fit” policy for workers at facilities in eight western states, under an agreement approved by the Eastern District of California.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the senior care and assisted living community provider in September 2017 under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of charging party Mitchell Miller and a “class” of similarly situated workers.

The unlawful policy prevented employees in California, Oregon, ...