Renee Majors v. General Electric Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee who could not physically lift 20 pounds could not perform the essential functions of her job because her only proposed accommodation was to have someone else lift the weight for her
• noting that the plaintiff’s only proposed accommodation—to have a handler lift heavy objects for her—was unreasonable
• requiring an employer to hire another employee to basically perform the plaintiff’s essential job functions is not a reasonable accommodation
• refusing to consider alleged retaliatory conduct occurring 311 days before plaintiff filed her charge
• “Lifting is a major life activity under today’s law.” (citing 42 U.S.C. § 12102(2)(A)
• “An employer’s proffered nondiscriminatory reason for the adverse employment action is pretextual if it was a lie.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).