INDIANAPOLIS -- A Bloomington business will settle a discrimination suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a diabetic black employee.

RMG Communications, LLC, doing business as Bloom Marketing Group, will pay $60,000 to settle the disability and race discrimination lawsuit, said EEOC spokeswoman Jo Ann Farnsworth.

The suit claimed that Bloom discriminated against a black employee when she was sent for a drug screen after experiencing symptoms of diabetes at work.

Even though she passed the drug test, the employee was fired shortly after the incident, Farnsworth said.

The EEOC charged that Bloom's decision to send the employee for a drug screen was based on the fact she is African-American, and that Bloom fired her because of her disability, insulin-dependent diabetes and her race.

"Discrimination, in any form, should not be tolerated in today's workplace," said Laurie Young, regional attorney of the EEOC's Indianapolis District Office, in a news release. "This type of reckless employer conduct should not be tolerated. The EEOC will vigorously prosecute employers who engage in this type of conduct."

Bloom will pay the employee $10,000 in back pay, $50,000 in compensatory and punitive damages and provide training to its manager, supervisors and human resources personnel on the topics of race and disability discrimination.

A representative with Bloom said the company did not wish to comment on the lawsuit.