DOJ Sued by Federal Attorneys for Denied Telework Accommodations

Lawyers for the US Department of Justice’s office overseeing immigration courts filed a federal class action claiming the agency’s no-telework policy is endangering the health of disabled employees.

The two named plaintiffs, Kimberly Panian and Hoi Yee Baxter, said the Executive Office of Immigration Review where they work as attorney-advisors has refused to provide reasonable telework accommodations despite their documented disabilities.

Panian, of California, has Type I diabetes and Baxter, of Texas, is being treated for Stage IV lung cancer and is immunocompromised, according to the suit filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ...