Dollar General Worker With Mental Health Issues Gets Bias Trial

A jury must decide if a lead sales associate at a Dollar General store in Missouri was illegally denied leave as an accommodation for her anxiety, depression, and migraine headaches, the Eighth Circuit ruled Oct. 3.

Dolgencorp LLC, which does business as Dollar General, may have been able to accommodate Rochelle Garrison’s mental health conditions in some other way, the court said. Garrison instead was forced to quit in order to “get better” after supervisor Sandra Bell told her leave wasn’t available and that she had to do her job and not be sick all the time, according to Garrison’s ...