Associational Disability Discrimination

The California State Court of Appeal reversed an employer’s motion for summary judgment, and is allowing a case for disability discrimination to proceed against an employer based on the employee’s need to accommodate his son’s daily dialysis (and not for the employee’s own illness).  The employee sued after being terminated for refusing to work a shift that did not permit him to be home in time for his son’s dialysis.

[Castro-Ramirez v. Dependable Highway Express]