Worker Successfully States Claim for Disability Discrimination for COVID-Related Termination
The first claims of COVID-related discrimination are starting to be addressed, including the recent decision of Matias v. Terrapin House, in which an employee claimed that she was discriminatorily terminated because she was "regarded as" disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act after she advised her former employer of her COVID diagnosis.
October 05, 2021 at 12:25 PM
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Employment lawyers have been at the epicenter of legal issues related to COVID-19—from the early days when businesses around the world shut down—to the protections of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act—to vaccine mandates, COVID has presented an array of new and challenging employment issues. Now, the first claims of COVID-related discrimination are starting to be addressed, including the recent decision of Matias v. Terrapin House, No. 5:21-cv-02288, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 176094 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 16, 2021), in which an employee claimed that she was discriminatorily terminated because she was "regarded as" disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act after she advised her former employer of her COVID diagnosis.
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