ADA Chronicles: Common Sense Saves Many Dollars

Click on the headline to read the Washington Post story titled, "A diabetic gets fired over a $1.69 (plus tax) drink and Dollar General must now pay her $277,656."

And some people question whether managers should have to take courses in law?  It would have been cost effective for Dollar General to pay the tuition for that district manager to take a Legal Environment course. Smart business judgment avoids costly court judgments.

EEOC press release.

Diabetes Discrimination:

Employment -at-Will on Crack!

There have been plenty of posts in this blog with examples of dodgy firings. Pretty much all of them are allowed under the employment-at-will doctrine. But here is an article with the accurately descriptive headline, "A Woman Told Her Boss About A Devastating Cancer Diagnosis.He Responded By Firing Her." Read it for yourself and fashion your lesson plan on employment law, ethics, employer responsibility, employee vulnerability, ADA (and when it does not apply) or humanity as the case may be.

This is not an isolated case: