William Beaumont Hospital, a healthcare provider now known as Corewell Health East, will pay compensatory damages and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination suit by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. The EEOC’s lawsuit alleged Beaumont refused to place a qualified nurse at its Wayne, Michigan location into certain part-time vacancies as a reasonable accommodation for her disability. According to the suit, Beaumont determined she could not work less than 32 hours a week in her position as an accommodation for her medical work restriction. The nurse expressed interest in several jobs she believed she could have performed within her hours restriction and asked to be placed in any of them. However, in April 2019, Beaumont refused to transfer her to a vacant position for which she was qualified, instead forcing her to apply and compete for openings, the EEOC said. After several months of submitting applications, the employee finally landed a position on her own.