The former owner of West Suburban Medical Center, an Oak Park, Illinois hospital will pay $150,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, West Suburban Medical Center violated federal civil rights laws by failing to provide a radiology technician the reasonable accommodation of a temporary, part-time schedule in January 2016, keeping her on unpaid leave instead. The suit also alleged that even after she no longer required a reasonable accommodation, the hospital refused to allow her to return to work, and instead terminated her in July 2016. Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination based on disability, including the failure to provide a reasonable accommodation.
