EEOC sued Walmart on September 30, alleging a deaf Fredericksburg, Virginia stocker went six years without an interpreter at mandatory daily briefings. Its complaint pleads each year and each supervisor as a separate failure, so the case argues the duty to accommodate renews every shift.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence40
Wagner Equipment tested a painter back from knee surgery on a 100-pound lifting standard it had already cut to 50 pounds, the EEOC alleges. The suit asks whether a return-to-work test has to match the job as it is actually done, with its lifting equipment and co-workers.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
EEOC alleges GSK Research and KGS Research, the two firms behind VRI Research, are one employer that refused accommodations to five disabled workers. If a court agrees, a refusal by one manager at one call center would count against both companies.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
EEOC sued Majestic Developers on September 25, alleging the Houston-area firm dropped a legally blind engineer hours after learning of his disability. His supervisor had agreed to every request, the complaint says, before a lead who heard of them secondhand overruled her.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
A vendor of European Accessibility Act tooling says most of his own market is exempt, and that the exemption covers the accessibility statement and documentation, not just the technical requirements.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+6
- Incentives82
- Confidence52