An Allemands, Louisiana-based provider of marine transportation services will pay $165,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The EEOC said Otto Candies LLC also will provide other relief to settle the suit.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Shawn McLamb had been working as a deckhand on one of Otto Candies’ many vessels. The EEOC said that the company told McLamb that it was firing him because his recurrent pancreatitis — a condition that can cause infrequent and brief bouts of severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting — had rendered him unqualified for the job.
The EEOC alleged that Otto Candies took this action even though the condition had not impeded McLamb’s work over the past 10 years and even though his doctor and the U.S. Coast Guard had both determined that the condition would not impede his work in the future.
The EEOC filed its suit (Civil Action No. 17-9584) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana last year. Under the two-year consent decree settling the suit, Otto Candies will pay McLamb $165,000 in monetary relief and provide a variety of other, non-monetary relief. For instance, the decree requires that the company train its employees on the requirements imposed by the ADA.
Source: EEOC
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