Federal Judge Hits Jewel-Osco With Sanctions For Violating Disabilities Bias Pact With EEOC

Jewel-Osco violated a 2011 consent decree with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by rejecting the return-to-work requests of three employees with disabilities, without seeing whether it had suitable openings or other ways to accommodate them, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Dec. 2 (EEOC v. Supervalu, Inc., 2014 BL 343669, N.D. Ill., 1:09-cv-05637, 12/2/14).

Partly adopting July 2014 recommendations by a magistrate judge 138 DLR A-5, 7/18/14, 43 EDR 96, 7/23/14, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered Supervalu Inc., Jewel Food Stores LLC and American Drug Stores LLC to pay the ...