Cook Fired for Using Food Cart as a Walker Lacks Job Bias Claim

A Pennsylvania company that provides meals for school districts isn’t liable under disability bias law for firing a cook who, though she was given permission to use a cane, persistently used a food cart to move around her workplace, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday.

Suzanne Tielle said the Nutrition Group should have let her use the food cart too, so it failed to accommodate her knee-related disability in violation of federal and state law. But there’s no evidence she ever “directly asked” to use the cart as a reasonable accommodation for her condition, the appeals court said in an unpublished ...