Walmart will pay $100,000 to settle claims that it fired a cashier at one of its Arizona locations for missing work due to having seizures, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.
According to the EEOC, Walmart fired the cashier from its Bullhead City, Ariz., location because she had seizures causing her to miss work. Walmart’s attendance policy allows for absences to be excused for disability accommodations, but after about two months, human resources personnel told her absences for her seizures would no longer be excused.
The EEOC said the cashier submitted a written request for the accommodation as provided in Walmart’s attendance policy, but was fired while the request was still pending.
The case is EEOC v. Walmart, D. Ariz., No. 3:23-cv-08118, consent decree 10/1/24.
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