Supervalu Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million to 110 workers to resolve allegations it systematically terminated disabled employees at Chicago-area supermarkets, one of the largest such settlements under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

A federal judge in Chicago signed a consent decree this week resolving a 2009 class-action suit the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed against Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Supervalu and its Jewel-Osco chain, the dominant supermarket operator in Chicago.

The EEOC alleged that Jewel had a “policy and practice” of terminating employees with disabilities at the end of their medical leaves, instead of bringing them back to work with reasonable accommodations — as required by the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Read the full McClatchy Tribune Newspapers story “Supervalu settles Chicago bias case for $3.2 million.”

Supervalu Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million to 110 workers to resolve allegations it systematically terminated disabled employees at Chicago-area supermarkets, one of the largest such settlements under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

A federal judge in Chicago signed a consent decree this week resolving a 2009 class-action suit the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed against Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Supervalu and its Jewel-Osco chain, the dominant supermarket operator in Chicago.

The EEOC alleged that Jewel had a “policy and practice” of terminating employees with disabilities at the end of their medical leaves, instead of bringing them back to work with reasonable accommodations — as required by the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Read the full McClatchy Tribune Newspapers story “Supervalu settles Chicago bias case for $3.2 million.”