Hawaii Electric Pays $50,000 Settle EEOC Suit

Hawaii Electric Company Inc. will pay $50,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit for denying an employee a meter reader position because of an eye condition, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced Tuesday.The EEOC said that the employee has a congenital eye condition resulting in blindness in one eye. The employee worked for the electric company since 2004 and in April 2010 was denied the position of meter reader because of Hawaii Electric’s “unfounded presumption that he could not do the job because of his disability.”The EEOC said the e...