Eagle Marine Services Electrical and Refrigeration has agreed to pay a former job applicant $45,000 in back pay and damages to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Louisiana, the agency said Tuesday.
The company allegedly withdrew a job offer after finding out through a company-ordered medical examination that the applicant had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and took prescribed medication for treatment, which violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to the EEOC.
Eagle Marine also allegedly didn’t make any individual assessment of the worker’s medication use or whether it would affect ...
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