In February 2004, the EEOC district office in St. Louis, Missouri brought this suit against T-Mobile USA, Inc., an national cellular phone service provider, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The complaint alleged that the defendant violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it refused to accommodate a blind job applicant.

The parties settled and a consent decree was entered in July 2005. In the consent decree, the parties agreed that the defendant would refrain from retaliating and discriminating on the basis of disability, pay the aggrieved party $40,000 in damages and $250 in release fees, develop an EEO policy for reasonable accommodation, provide national training for ALL of it managers, implement a digital complaint system that can be accessed through its homepage, establish a taskforce to evaluate all the technology in use and available to the company to accommodate blind individuals, post EEO notices, and appoint and internal manager to ensure compliance. No attorney's fees or court costs were awarded. The terms of the agreement ran for one year.

Jason Chester - 06/30/2007


compress summary