Former Convenience Store Owner Settles With EEOC Over No Accommodations

Mealey's (April 8, 2020, 9:17 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The former owner of 7-Eleven stores in Oklahoma will pay $160,000 to nine former employees to end a lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by firing workers who missed more than three days of work and didn’t qualify for leave, according to a consent decree approved April 7 by a federal judge in Oklahoma (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Brown-Thompson General Partnership, No. 16-1142, W.D. Okla.)....