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Walgreens Sued For Job Bias Against Blacks

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed an employment discrimination class lawsuit against Walgreen Company, the Illinois-based national drugstore chain, alleging widespread racial bias against thousands of African American workers.

The EEOC charges in the suit that Walgreens assigns managers, management trainees, and pharmacists to low-performing stores and to stores in African American communities because of their race. Additionally, the EEOC asserts that Walgreens denies these managers and professionals promotional opportunities based on race – all in violation of federal law.

“This lawsuit demonstrates that the Commission’s focus on systemic cases will be a powerful weapon to tackle obvious as well as subtle forms of race discrimination,” said EEOC Chair Naomi C. Earp. “We will not rest until workplace decision-making is based on merit rather than immutable and irrelevant characteristics, such as race or color.”

Walgreens’ actions were investigated by the St. Louis and Miami district offices of the EEOC after more than 20 current and former employees from around the country complained to the federal agency. The EEOC filed the litigation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Case No. 07-cv-00172-MJR-CJP) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement with Walgreens. Read more at eeoc.gov.


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There are laws about missed days and injury pay claims at your employment place
By law, you must be unable to work for seven days (including weekends and holidays) before you are eligible for temporary disability benefits. Benefits are retroactive to the first day. The seven days need not be consecutive. Please note that there is no similar waiting period to receive medical benefits or permanent disability benefits. Those benefits are due, if warranted, regardless of the number of lost workdays.

 


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Equal Employment Opportunity

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Nondiscrimination in hiring, firing, compensation, promotion, recruitment, training, and other terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin or disability.

Readily Achievable

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Easily accomplishable and able to be carried out without much difficulty or expense. In determining whether an action is readily achievable, factors to be considered include nature and cost of the action, overall financial resources and the effect on expenses and resources, legitimate safety requirements, impact on the operation of a site and, if applicable, overall financial resources, size and type of operation of any parent corporation or entity.

Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act

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Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the "ADA"), as amended, 42 U.S.C. §12111, et seq., prohibits discrimination in employment against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability. It also is unlawful under the Act for an employer to take retaliatory action against any individual for opposing employment practices made unlawful by the ADA or for filing a discrimination charge or for testifying or assisting or participating in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under the ADA.

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