Case: Disabilities Discrimination/Failure to Accommodate (E.D. Wash.)

Walmart, Inc. is entitled to a grant of summary judgment on a vision-impaired former employee’s claims of disabilities discrimination, disparate treatment, failure to accommodate and retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Washington Law Against Discrimination, a federal district court ruled. The employee claimed that he was forced to remain on involuntary leave and to resign, because Walmart refused to find a position for him after he took leave. The court found the evidence didn’t support his claims, as he took voluntary leave and requested to extend it for medical reasons, and Walmart couldn’t override his doctor’s note ...