Consumer Law
The EEOC Sues a Chicago Manufacturing Company for Firing a Man Over Disability-Related Absences
Grief, Inc., an international manufacturing company, and American Flange, its wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the western suburbs of Chicago, violated federal law when they fired an employee and refused to excuse his disability-related absences, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC’s suit, the agency’s pre-suit investigation revealed American Flange and Grief implemented a point-based attendance system that did not excuse disability-related absences. Because of this policy, an employee who had two absences sparked by a seizure disorder was fired even though the companies knew the absences were due to his medical condition.
