MUST MY EMPLOYER PROVIDE ME WITH REASONABLE ACCOMODATIONS FOR MY MEDICAL DISABILITY?
In California, employees with a recognized medical disability are protected by federal and CA law. If you have a medical disability and your employer is aware of your disability, it is up to your employer to provide you with reasonable accommodations for your disability. Your employer cannot use your disability as a reason to discriminate against you. This means he cannot fire you, demote you, not promote, or not provide you with certain benefits just because you have a disability.
So how much must you tell your employer? Not much. The burden is on your boss to take care of you. Recently, a CA employee who used a company-provided scooter to move around a factory sued his employer for disability bias after the scooter broke and was not replaced by the employer. The employee had worked for six months without using a scooter before deciding to retire and the employee never told the company he could not do the job without the scooter. Still, he hired an experienced employment attorney to help him sue his employer and won thousands of dollars in a disability discrimination lawsuit.
If you are an employee in CA who believes that you have been discriminated against at work because of your medical disability, call the skilled employment attorneys at Greenberg & Rudman LLP. Our talented legal team can help you. Call the Law Offices of Greenberg & Rudman LLP at 1-800-252-9776 (1-800-ALAWPRO) NOW for a free consultation regarding your legal rights or visit us at our website at www.discriminationattorney.com for more information about all types of medical disability discrimination at work.
