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Firm to Pay $30,000 in EEOC Suit

November 14, 2011

An Irving, Texas-based staffing firm will pay $30,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced.

The EEOC sued the company, G2 Secure Staff LLC, in September claiming it refused to accommodate a disabled applicant during the hiring process and denied him employment because of his disability.

The case involved Sharif Thompson, a job applicant who completed all of the requirements for obtaining a position through G2 Secure Staff except for a drug test, according to the EEOC. Thompson, who has a kidney disease that prevents him from urinating, asked if he could take the drug test using a hair sample rather than a urinalysis as an accommodation for his disability. The company failed to provide Thompson the opportunity to take the drug test by hair sample or any other means that would have enabled him to be hired into the position he sought, and Thompson was denied the job, according to the EEOC.

G2 Secure Staff did not respond to a request for comment.