Peak Performers, an Austin, Texas-based staffing agency, agreed to pay $160,000 to a disabled former employee to end a discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged that Peak Performers denied a brief unpaid leave request to an executive assistant with mental health-related disabilities who needed time off to receive outpatient medical treatment following a suicide attempt. The company fired her in April 2024, even though she would have been able to return to work within three weeks after completing her treatment, the EEOC said.
The two-year consent decree requires Peak Performers to adopt an extensive ...
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