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Originally posted by luvtoscrap
The company does have the right to send her to their own doctors for a fit to work evaluation and recommendations for accomidations. If she is found not fit to work due to any physical or mental reason for her position-then ADA is not a vaild.
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I worked with a girl in a psychiatric lockup for teenagers several years ago. She always claimed health issues (and yeah, she had some) and therefore would always claim that we had to accomodate her requests because of ADA. Thing is...every one had to pass a physical before being hired because the job is a physical one...we had to restrain out of control patients almost daily!!! However, for some reason we were always "accomodating" her even though she didn't fit the employment criteria. Hell, she was really good at setting off the kids, and then she couldn't restrain them so I had to. Plus, she applied for a change of shift and wanted the 7am to 11pm shift on Saturdays and Sundays...she was given that shift (which I was the shift lead for) and IMMEDIATELY presented us with a note from her doctor saying she couldn't work more than 12 hours at a time so according to ADA we had to let her leave early (which put me short handed in a house full of psych-challenged teenage girls).
Damn...if you're not supposed to work a 12 hour shift...why apply for one? And why didn't the managers say "OK, since you can't fulfil the basic expectations of that shift, you should work this 8 hour shift during the week instead."
I think she had secrets on some of the higher ups.
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PsychTau