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An employer has failed to prove that accommodating an injured employee's return to work would have caused it unjustifiable hardship, with the Federal Circuit Court ordering it to pay him $44k for discrimination.
Judge Stewart Brown said the employer's approach to the employee's attempted return was "clumsy rather than malicious; ill-informed rather than calculated", but nonetheless found it was unlawful.
He heard that in October 2020, the Don's Mechanical and Diesel Service employee's left ulna was fractured when he was assaulted while walking his dog...
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