Geisinger Health, Geisinger Health System Foundation and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, collectively a Pennsylvania healthcare system, will pay $450,000 and provide other equitable relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Geisinger engaged in policies and practices since January 2018 denying reasonable accommodations to workers with disabilities, including job-protected leave and reassignment without competition. Geisinger’s policies limited job-protected leave to a specified duration and required employees returning from leave to apply and compete for their own positions if vacant, or compete and be selected for another position within two months of their return to work. The EEOC charged that during this process, Geisinger would manipulate vacancies and job postings to interfere with the efforts of employees with disabilities attempting to secure their prior position or obtain a new one.