Walmart, EEOC Renew Fight Over Coach as Disability Accommodation

The EEOC failed to show that a deaf and visually impaired cart pusher could perform his essential work duties, and the employee also wasn’t entitled to a permanent assistant to help with those duties, Walmart will tell the Seventh Circuit on Friday.

Walmart provided Paul Reina with a job coach for the nearly 17 years he worked at its store in Beloit, Wis., and the Americans with Disabilities Act doesn’t punish an employer for providing a disabled worker with more generous job assistance than the law mandates, according to Walmart Stores Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores East LP.

Previously letting Reina ...