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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I'm as pro-hand washing as the next person, but when you read the first article that Jon posted, you'll see that the case ended up being more about McDonald's not taking the actions that it should have to see if she could have been employed by them in a way that didn't require as frequent hand washing, basically in a non-food handling job.
She had worked there for more than 20 years when she developed some kind of health problem related to frequent hand washing. McDonalds basically just fired her and never even dealt with her directly to see what exactly the problem was and if she could be accommodated.
So while making the case about allowing food service employees to refuse to handle food makes us all interested and outraged, it's really a failure to accommodate a disability lawsuit.
There's no indication that anyone felt that food service employees could refuse to wash their hands.
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I read the article, but I also worked for McDonald's for 5 years in high school and college. Many of these restaurants are franchises. The administrative work is done by the managers in between working at the grill and food service up front. I never worked in the grill, but would have to wash my hands a lot as a cashier. Fries, ketchup, mustard...food gets on you even using the best of care. The other option would be to clean up the dining room, but you need to use cleaning fluids out there as well. And you can't tell me she wouldn't want to wash her hands after picking up other people's garbage? The fact of the matter is that everyone has to wash their hands in a restaurant and everyone wears different hats when working there. I can't think of a reasonable accomadation.
I guess she could have gone to work for corporate McDonald's, but are they local to her?
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