Justices Pass on Disabled Sanofi-Aventis Worker’s Job-Share Suit

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a former Sanofi-Aventis US LLC sales representative’s claim that she was unlawfully denied a job-share arrangement as an accommodation for her autoimmune disease.

The company’s action violated the Americans with Disabilities Act because it was allegedly based on a work rule that required managerial approval of permitted agreements between employees to split the duties of a single Job, Janet Perdue said in asking the justices to look at her case.

Sanofi opposed high court review.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit misinterpreted the ADA and Supreme Court precedent ...