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The employer duty, under laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, to make reasonable adjustments so disabled employees can do their jobs, and the disputes that arise over it.
TD Bank is accused in a federal suit filed October 12 of firing a customer service representative while she was on mental health leave. The allegations are untested; they turn on how a supervisor, HR and an outside administrator each handled one leave request.
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Former Stryker team leader sues, alleging he was fired eight days after using FMLA leave the company had approved. His complaint is built largely from Stryker's own leave approvals and a same-day report to HR, so one supervisor's handling of that leave is now the company's legal exposure.
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NYU Langone Health fired a $230,000-a-year hospitalist after childbirth left her with spinal complications, according to a lawsuit filed October 7. The complaint says her medical notes gave specific return dates, so the hospital's written description of her requests as indefinite now has to hold up against its own files.
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Tesla faces a federal suit from an eight-year technician in Nevada who says he was put on unpaid leave after his doctor cleared him on Tesla's own form. His complaint says the formal accommodation process he was pressed to enter is what ended his time in the role.
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EEOC sued Walmart on September 30, alleging a deaf Fredericksburg, Virginia stocker went six years without an interpreter at mandatory daily briefings. Its complaint pleads each year and each supervisor as a separate failure, so the case argues the duty to accommodate renews every shift.
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