A national education provider has paid $100,000 to extract itself from a lawsuit over its refusal to hire a blind man for a position at its Rancho Cordova campus.
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On Kirksey's behalf, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate an out-of-court settlement. The agency then sued the parent company, ITT Educational Services Inc., in Sacramento federal court, accusing the company of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not granting Kirksey's reasonable request for an accommodation and denying him a job because he is blind.
In addition to the money paid to Kirksey, a consent decree filed in court Thursday calls for the company and its more than 140 sites of ITT Technical Institutes to revise their hiring assessments and website testing.