Pfizer Fails to Escape Warehouse Worker’s Disability Bias Suit

Pfizer Inc. must face claims that it fired a warehouse associate for taking prescription oxycodone in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Holly Barrett’s allegations support the inference that Pfizer regarded her as an individual with a disability and terminated because of it, Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Dries of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin said Thursday.

But Barrett’s allegations don’t establish that Manpower US Inc.—the staffing agency that assigned her to Pfizer’s Pleasant Prairie, Wis., facility— exercised control or supervision over her work, Dries said as he dismissed charges against the firm.

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