SSA Settles Discrimination Lawsuit with Disabled Employees

The Social Security Administration (“SSA”) has settled a decade long lawsuit that was filed against them by disabled SSA employees who were denied promotions throughout their tenure with SSA.  These disabled employees had made the “best qualified” promotions lists at the Administration, but were routinely passed over for promotions. The disabled workers who were passed over for warranted promotions suffered from disabilities like deafness, blindness, epilepsy, missing extremities, paralysis, and mental and psychiatric difficulties.  

 SSA has promised to overhaul their equal opportunity program. However, it is frightening that an agency responsible for administrating disability benefits would discriminate against their own disabled employees. Hopefully, the $9.98 million compensation package SSA has been saddled with will serve as a reminder that their disabled workers must be treated equally to their nondisabled peers.

 For more information on the settlement, please read: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-eeoc-social-security-disability-20141107-story.html

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