Deaf Employee Sues Albertsons Over Workplace Mistreatment
FORT WORTH, TX, MAY 24, 2005-- A Fort Worth man has filed a disability-discrimination lawsuit recently against his employer, Albertsons, and a coworker for mistreating him because he is deaf.
William Monteleone, 39, claims that some employees at the Albertsons Distribution Center in Fort Worth hurled cans and bottles at him; his supervisor mocked him by acting deaf, then yelling in Monteleone's face; and forklift driver Charles Davis gunned the engine and ran the machine toward Monteleone.