· 2/26/1999
Stephanie Waggoner v. Olin Corporation
Citations
- 169 F.3d 481
- 9 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 88
- 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 3128
- 1999 WL 98568
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that “[i]n some jobs . . . working at home for a time might be an option” for a reasonable accommodation
- holding that regular attendance was an essential function
- holding \as a matter of law\ that employee's desire \to miss work whenever she felt she needed to and apparently for so long as she felt she needed to\ was not a reasonable accommodation for someone employed as a production worker
- denying a request for an accommodation for unlim ited time off by a production employee who was absent or tardy forty times in her 20-month tenure
- denying a request for an accommodation for unlimited time off by a production employee who was absent or tardy forty times in her 20 month tenure
- noting that “[tjhere are limits to how far an employer must go in granting leave” and holding request unreasonable because “[plaintiff] simply wanted to miss work whenever she felt she needed to and apparently for so long as she needed to”
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Judges: Posner, Kanne, Evans
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