A former manager of a Burger King restaurant in Pennsylvania may advance her disability discrimination claims because questions exist about whether she was fired for violating a company rule or for taking too much time off to care for her son, who had cancer, a federal judge in Pittsburgh ruled March 27 (Buffington v. PEC Mgmt. II LLP).
Theresa Buffington alleged that district managers and upper management discriminated against her by firing her for tending to her son after seven years of employment with no written or oral warnings, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and ...
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