A staff nurse at Sutter Roseville Medical Center said she needed a workplace accommodation for a disability. What she got instead, federal investigators say, was the door.
The case didn’t end there. After the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission looked into what happened, the hospital agreed to pay $200,000 and take other corrective steps to resolve the investigation, detailed in the EEOC’s announcement.
It started with an accommodation request, not a fight
In April 2023, the nurse—formerly employed as a staff nurse at Sutter Roseville—filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC. Her claim was straightforward: she had been discharged after her managers refused to provide a reasonable accommodation for her disability.
The accommodation she was asking for wasn’t described as something exotic or complicated. The EEOC said she sought a lateral reassignment to an open position—essentially moving into another available job at the same level…