Jewel-Osco has agreed to pay $1.95 million to settle charges filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the grocery chain denied reasonable accommodations to a group of employees based on their various disabilities.

The $1.95 million will be paid to a group of affected individuals and will be used to provide disability training for management and revise policies, according to an EEOC news release.

Mary Frances Trucco, Jewel-Osco’s director of communications and government affairs, emphasized in the news release Jewel-Osco’s commitment to supporting individuals with disabilities through an expanded partnership with the EEOC. The Itasca-based grocery chain has a long-standing practice of hiring people with a variety of disabilities, according to the news release.

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