Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia, Inc., a managed healthcare provider that is part of the Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente organization, agreed to settle a lawsuit after it was found liable for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced. After the court ruled against Kaiser, Kaiser agreed to pay its former employee $130,000 and enter into a consent decree under which it will train its employees on the ADA, make changes to its employment forms, and allow the EEOC to monitor how it handles future requests for accommodation under the ADA. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, the disabilities of one of Kaiser’s specialty appointment coordinators made it traumatic for her to access her workplace through revolving doors, so she requested the reasonable accommodation of using the available non-revolving doors. Kaiser refused to allow its employee to use the non-revolving doors to accommodate her disabilities and forced her to use the revolving doors instead, the EEOC said.
