Disabled Sears Employees Recieve Million Dollar Settlement over Firings
In what was described as one of the largest Americans with Disabilities settlements in a single Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit, Sears, Roebuck and Co., announced a record $6.2 million dollar award in response to a national class action suit. The suit itself alleged that Sears, Roebuck and Co., had a history of firing employees [...]
Rights of the Mentally Ill Violated in NY
A NY federal judge ruled that New York State violated the Americans with Disabilities Act after they placed 4,300 mentally ill and displaced patients in nursing homes that were no better than the institutions they were replacing. The ruling came down Tuesday after Brooklyn judge Nicholas Garaufis decided that the mentally ill were not able [...]