Walmart is reviewing the filing, company spokesman Randy Hargrove said.
In a previous statement, he said Walmart’s leaders and managers “take supporting all our associates seriously and for those with disabilities, we routinely accommodate thousands every year.”
Walmart vs EEOC long battle
The legal battle between Walmart and the EEOC has been going on for years after Spaeth got fired. The employee who has Down syndrome has worked for over 16 years as a sales associate at the Walmart Supercenter in Manitowoc which is a small city in eastern Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Michigan. She was fired after the store started computerizing the scheduling system, and the managers refused to reinstate Spaeth’s longtime work schedule.
Walmart lost the lawsuit in July, and the judge ordered the company to pay over $125 million verdicts. The verdict is one of the highest in the federal agency’s history for a single victim. The damages that the judge allowed were estimated at $300,000, the maximum allowed under the law.
