Ohio Nursing and Rehab Facility to Pay $150K Over Discrimination Settlement

The Laurels of Athens, a nursing and rehabilitation installation successful Athens, Ohio, owned and operated by Laurel Heath Care Company, Athens LTC, Inc., Ciena Healthcare Management, Inc., and Ciena Group, LLC, volition wage $150,000 and supply different alleviation to settee an property and enactment favoritism lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the national bureau announced.

According to the lawsuit, a carnal therapy adjunct was fired successful 2020 aft helium tried to instrumentality from approved aesculapian leave. At the time, the worker was 59 years aged and a fewer months distant from his 60th birthday. The Laurels of Athens fired him and claimed determination was nary enactment disposable adjacent though it offered enactment to different younger, pistillate carnal therapy assistants. The institution besides refused to rehire the worker aft helium filed a complaint of discrimination.

The two-year decree settling the suit requires the Laurels of Athens and others to wage $150,000 successful backmost wage and compensatory damages, and to supply periodic reporting, monitoring, and unrecorded grooming for management, quality resources, and non-supervisory employees to guarantee compliance with the ADEA and Title VII.

Source: EEOC

Topics Ohio