Burger King Franchisees Will Pay $30,000 To End Intellectual Disability Bias Suit

Mealey's (August 23, 2019, 1:03 PM EDT) -- OKLAHOMA CITY — The operators of a Burger King in Oklahoma will pay $30,000 to end a complaint by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for withdrawing a job offer for an applicant with an intellectual disability after learning that he would be accompanied to work by a job coach, according to a consent decree signed by a federal judge in Oklahoma on Aug. 21 (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Northwest Petroleum, LP, et al., No. 18-703, W.D. Okla.)....