Walmart had allegedly fired hourly workers with disabilities who could not pass a computer-based test.
Walmart failed to provide accommodations for a ‘knowledge assesment’ test to workers with disabilities.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that the test, which Walmart began administering nationwide in 2015, had no connection to workers’ job duties, in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Arkansas. The EEOC filed the lawsuit on behalf of two Arkansas women who said they were fired by Walmart after failing the test. One is deaf and the other has intellectual disabilities, according to the lawsuit.
The EEOC has filed a series of lawsuits in recent years accusing Walmart, the largest private US employer, of discriminating against workers and job applicants with disabilities.
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