IT employee could perform essential functions from
home; ADA claim proceeds
Having removed an IT
engineer’s supervisor responsibility, the employer failed to convince a federal
district court in Massachusetts that his presence at the office was an
essential function, particularly since he had been successfully performing his
duties from home for years. Denying summary judgment on the employee’s ADA and
state law discrimination claims, the court also found triable questions on
whether his severe depression substantially limited a major life activity and
whether his termination was at least in part because of his disability. For one
thing, there was a question whether a server crash just before he was fired
could reasonably have been viewed as his fault (Moebius v. TharpeRobbins
Co., November 1, 2016, Bowler,
M.).
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