Multi-Cinema (AMC), a nationwide movie theatre chain, will pay $56,000 to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.
In addition to paying $56,000 under the two-year consent decree resolving the lawsuit, AMC will implement written policies to address how it handles reasonable accommodation requests and to prohibit disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The company will provide training to staff and post an employee notice about disability discrimination.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, AMC, at its Owings Mills, Maryland location, violated federal law when it forced a 22-year employee with cerebral palsy to quit around September 2023 after it deprived him of reasonable accommodations. The requested accommodations included a ticket scanner with a strap and side button, and a large font printed list of the movies and their corresponding theaters, which would have enabled him to better perform his job.
According to the suit, AMC also reduced the employee’s hours, forcing him to quit his job.
“Federal law requires employers to modify how work is performed before determining that an employee with a disability cannot perform the job,” said Debra Lawrence, regional attorney for the EEOC. “Absent undue hardship, an employer should purchase adaptive devices instead of cutting an employee’s hours.”
The EEOC sad it filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its administrative conciliation process.
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