"Bias Suit Filed on Behalf of Disabled Men in South Carolina Meat Plant", 30 Sep 2016

...[S]everal older men with intellectual disability were found living in virtual segregation in a seedy bunkhouse in South Carolina, across the street from the massive meat-processing plant where they once worked...[V]arious government agencies worked to rescue the men from their shabby living conditions...Now the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against Work Services Inc...According to the lawsuit, the company had discriminated for years against the men by providing little or no compensation for their work.  In addition, the lawsuit alleges, Work Services had required the men to live in substandard conditions, restricted their freedom of movement, and deprived them of basic opportunities to engage with the world beyond the bunkhouse grounds.  This illegal and hostile work environment, the federal agency said, included offensive name-calling rooted in the men’s disability...[A] regional lawyer for the equal opportunity commission., described the case as “one of the most uncomplicated” that the agency has filed under the Americans With Disabilities Act — “a clear-cut matter of an employer exploiting the trust of vulnerable workers”...