Can an employer accommodate an employee's physical limitations in getting to and from work?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Livingston v. Fred Meyer Stores Inc, D.C. No. 3:06-CV-01825-HA, No. 08-35597 (9th Cir. 2010):
We have recognized that an employer has a duty to accommodate an employee's limitations in getting to and from work. See Humphrey v. Memorial Hospitals Ass'n, 239 F.3d 1128, 1135 (9th Cir. 2001) (holding that employer had a duty to accommodate employee with obsessive compulsive disorder, which interfered with her ability to get to work on time, or at all, but did not affect her
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