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EEOC Lawsuit Highlights Cancer Discrimination in the Workplace

February 24, 2023

Via: SHRM

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently sued the United Labor Agency (ULA), a workforce development organization in Cleveland, for allegedly denying an employee with breast cancer reasonable accommodations and forcing her to resign.

The EEOC said the action violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

“It is an employer’s responsibility to know its obligations under the ADA,” EEOC Philadelphia regional attorney Debra M. Lawrence said in a statement. “This includes complying with the temporary medical restrictions of employees who are receiving ongoing treatments for serious medical conditions, unless it can demonstrate that doing so would pose an undue hardship.”

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