Adverse Act Needed for ADA Accommodation Claim: 11th Cir. (1)

Workers suing employers for failing to accommodate their disabilities must show they were also fired, disciplined, or suffered another action that adversely affected their employment in order to bring an Americans with Disabilities Act claim, a federal appeals court ruled.

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit revived Teddy Beasley’s failure-to-accommodate lawsuit against O’Reilly Auto Parts on Wednesday, saying a worker can sue under the ADA for a failure to accommodate a disability “only if that failure negatively impacts the employee’s hiring, advancement, discharge, compensation, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of his employment.”

Beasley, a deaf ...