EEOC: BMO Harris Settles Discrimination Case for $400K

A Chicago employer agreed to settle a disability discrimination case involving 14 former disabled employees for $400,000. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that BMO Harris Bank, of Chicago, signed a consent decree requiring it to pay $400,000 to 14 former employees. The EEOC had sued the bank in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, with allegations that the bank had unlawfully terminated the workers at the end of their medical leaves of absence instead of offering them accommodations that would have allowed them to return to work. The commission al...