The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on Tuesday, April 9 that GMRI Inc., which operates an Olive Garden restaurant in Tarentum, will pay $30,000 and provide additional relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a job applicant.

According to the commission’s lawsuit, the general manager of the Olive Garden in Tarentum interviewed an applicant with a disability for a busser position, during which the applicant was asked various illegal questions related to the applicant’s disability.

Questions related to the applicants ability to walk with a cane, as well as asking what was “wrong with” the applicant and how “bad” his disability was, the release said.

The general manager then ended the interview and declined to hire the applicant because of his disability and the information from the general manager’s illegal questions.

A decree signed by a federal court also ordered the Tarentum Olive Garden to provide Americans with Disabilities Act training to the general manager and other employees.