It turns out Walmart has a pattern of firing, not accommodating, and cutting hours of employees with disabilities.
A woman from Wisconsin recently filed a lawsuit after working for the corporation for 16 years before being fired.
A lawyer then found the same thing had happened to other employees with disabilities in Wisconsin according to CNBC, as well as many other in different states.
One person was awarded $5 million in damages.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has taken on Walmart in court claiming instead of providing reasonable accommodations for one employees disabilities, they fired them.
A federal jury agreed, and found Walmart had violated federal law.
Walmart was ordered to pay $125 million before a judge reduced the amount to $300,000 which is the highest amount allowed by law.
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