After more than five years of litigation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has settled a disability discrimination case against a unit of United Parcel Service for $95,000.The case on behalf of Mauricio Centeno, who has been deaf since birth, yielded an important appellate win for the EEOC when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in 2010 suggested that employers must reasonably accommodate employees with disabilities even if it’s for benefits and privileges (such as staff meetings) that are not essential to the job. Centeno, whose first and primary language is American Sign Language, worked as a junior clerk in the accounting department at a UPS facility in California from 2001 until 2009. Both sides agreed he could complete the normal duties of his job without a sign language interpreter. The dispute centered on whether UPS was obliged to provide an interpreter for training, staff meetings, and other work-related sessions.