AMC theaters accused of disabled discrimination

The country’s largest cinema channel illegally forced an employee with brain paralysis after two decades of work, the Equality Employment Commission said.

In a legal action filed this month, the EEOC alleys that the American multi-cinema, known as AMC theaters, violated the American law with handicaps when it refused reasonable adaptations to Marc Gillis, a veteran employee at its site of Owings Mills, in Mount.

“This employee worked for the company for 22 years and asked very simple adaptations to continue as an effective employee,” said Debra Lawrence, regional lawyer for the EEOC for the Philadelphia district.

The complaint indicates that after more than 20 years of digitization tickets, helping customers and cleaning theaters at the AMC, Gillis received a new manager who shouted and called him “slow”. The director reduced his hours and would have refused to provide him with a ticket scanner with a strap and a side button, housing that had been provided previously. In addition, the EEOC said that the manager only offered Gillis a large printed version of a list showing each film and in which theater he played.

In the end, the prosecution indicates that the manager has stopped putting Gillis on the work schedule.

The EEOC said it had brought legal action to the Maryland District District Court after failing a pre-ploting settlement with the company.

The EEOC wants the court to order the AMC to modify its policies and practices to prevent disability discrimination and provide Gillis with a sacred to reimbursement and additional compensation, among other repairs.

AMC did not respond to a request for comments on the prosecution.