Company’s Ergonomic Specialist, Other Proof Back GE Worker’s ADA Accommodation Claim

An assembler at a General Electric Co. manufacturing plant in Indiana can pursue a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act that she was denied a repair operator position based on the company’s refusal to accommodate her rotator cuff injury, a federal district court ruled March 6 (English v. Gen. Elec. Co., 2014 BL 61730, S.D. Ind., 1:12-cv-00765-JMS-DKL, 3/6/14).

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana cited the testimony of GE’s own ergonomic specialist, Ruth Whitt, that she believed Cindy English could have performed the above-shoulder tasks required by the repair operator job if ...