ST. LOUIS – Tyson Foods Inc. will pay $35,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency has announced. The EEOC had charged that Tyson Foods refused to hire a former employee because he had epilepsy.
The EEOC lawsuit filed in May 2010 alleged that Tyson failed to hire Mark White for an open maintenance job in its Sedalia, Mo., chicken processing plant because he had epilepsy and that Tyson’s refusal to hire White violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). White’s epilepsy had. . .
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