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Employee With Direct Evidence of Discrimination in Job Training Need Not Show Adverse Employment Action To Bring ADA Claim

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So ruled the federal appeals court for the Seventh Circuit in Hoffman v. Caterpillar, Inc., 11 AD Cases 1674 (7th Cir. 2001). The employee in question had no lower left arm; her job duties involved scanning documents. She filed a “disparate treatment” claim under the ADA after her supervisor refused to train her on a… Read more »