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- A company in Illinois fired a worker after it learned that she was deaf, the EEOC alleged.
- The worker lost her job on her very first day, the EEOC said in a disability-discrimination lawsuit.
- The company has agreed to pay the worker $75,000 in back pay and compensatory damages.
A beauty manufacturing company in Illinois fired a worker on her first day on the job after finding out that she was deaf, according to a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The lawsuit says that the woman was placed by a staffing agency as a production worker at the Countryside, Illinois site of Voyant Beauty, a maker of skincare, hair, and bath products.