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Walmart Discrimination Case Essay

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In this case, it is Walmart causing a discrimination against a guy named Clark who has had a disability since he was a child. The discrimination is that he has a disability and Walmart used that to fire him in the end which has caused the disability lawsuit. This means that the company has found a way to fire him based on his disability. The way they did that was because he told them when get got hired a while ago that he had a disability and would need a written list of things to be done each day. Walmart agreed on that they would do that for him. They were doing that for him for a while and then all a sudden they stopped making him list. So, over the time they stopped making him list he did not get the things they wanted done. Since …show more content…

This organization can prevent this by first off educating all the employees and managers of the laws of the EEO. If Walmart can educate everyone in the company of these laws than they will less likely going to break them because they will know what is acceptable to do. If they would have been educated on the law the mangers would have known that not giving a person with a disability the accommodation they asked for while being hired can get them sued and that they cannot fire them for the organization for not giving him the daily task he was promised to get every day. This would have prevented Walmart from losing $90,000 for not following the law of a person with a disability. They could have had HR come in and investigate why they guy was not doing his task. If they would have done that they would have found out that the employees working there stop giving him the daily task and that is the reason for him not doing the proper task. If that would have been done they could have made it so that he could get his list again and they would never have had to go through this law suit for firing him for not doing the proper task. In the long run if this origination would educate everyone about the EEO Laws than they could have prevent this from happening and could have Clark still working there doing the daily task he use to do while he given a list of task. Education is the biggest way to prevent this from

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