http://arch-online.org/disability-employment-disability-in-the-workplace.htm Your guide to disability rights and disability truths. Thu, 10 May 2012 08:21:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://arch-online.org/disability-employment-disability-in-the-workplace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-53956 Bobby Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:29:32 +0000 http://arch-online.org/?p=251#comment-53956 I am employee at McDonald's and in January of 2010, I was in a car accident and I tore my back muscle from top to bottom. When I returned to work after being on medical leave, I was unable to perform some of the duties I was able to do before the accident. After a while of not working those certain positions, I was then put back on those positions. I specifically told my employers that I am unable to work those positions because ever since the accident, my back has never been the same. I even brought in numerous doctor's notes and still no change. While working those positions, I undergo excrutiating pain in my back muscle. I almost always tell them that I cannot work those positions for the reasons explained above, and they act apathetically and I am forced to work that position, and since then, I can feel my back getting worse and worse and yet it was doing so good healing. I do not know what I should do if they don't care what I go through. Any advice???? I am employee at McDonald’s and in January of 2010, I was in a car accident and I tore my back muscle from top to bottom. When I returned to work after being on medical leave, I was unable to perform some of the duties I was able to do before the accident. After a while of not working those certain positions, I was then put back on those positions. I specifically told my employers that I am unable to work those positions because ever since the accident, my back has never been the same. I even brought in numerous doctor’s notes and still no change. While working those positions, I undergo excrutiating pain in my back muscle. I almost always tell them that I cannot work those positions for the reasons explained above, and they act apathetically and I am forced to work that position, and since then, I can feel my back getting worse and worse and yet it was doing so good healing. I do not know what I should do if they don’t care what I go through. Any advice????

]]> http://arch-online.org/disability-employment-disability-in-the-workplace.htm/comment-page-1#comment-12510 adaisuseless Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:08:02 +0000 http://arch-online.org/?p=251#comment-12510 My husband was an employee of Goodyear Tire & Rubber for 17 years and developed multiple sclerosis during his employment. Out of the blue, he was told he could no longer come to work. There were no accommodations made, no offers of other jobs...nothing. All of his work records were flawless-job performance, safety, and attendance. We were advised to file a disability discrimination lawsuit, which we did. We lost our case, as well as the appeal. Our attorneys told us the ADA is not worth the paper it is written on. This happened in 2004 and we struggle financially to this day. Something has to be done for disabled workers to help them keep their homes. This law has to be changed to be more effective not only for the disabled but for the primary caregivers. My husband was an employee of Goodyear Tire & Rubber for 17 years and developed multiple sclerosis during his employment. Out of the blue, he was told he could no longer come to work. There were no accommodations made, no offers of other jobs…nothing. All of his work records were flawless-job performance, safety, and attendance. We were advised to file a disability discrimination lawsuit, which we did. We lost our case, as well as the appeal. Our attorneys told us the ADA is not worth the paper it is written on. This happened in 2004 and we struggle financially to this day.
Something has to be done for disabled workers to help them keep their homes. This law has to be changed to be more effective not only for the disabled but for the primary caregivers.

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