Georgia Facility Management Company Settles EEOC Disability Suit

ISS Facility Services Inc. will pay $47,500 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced Tuesday.

After the company started requiring employees to return to site full-time during the pandemic, health and safety manager Ronisha Moncrief requested to continue to work some days from home and have breaks on site because of a pulmonary condition, the EEOC said in its lawsuit filed at the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

ISS allegedly denied her accommodation request, despite allowing other people in her position to work from home, and ...