Posted on 05/18/2011 10:30:13 AM PDT by matt1234
The federal government is suing Starbucks for firing a dwarf.
According to Reuters, the barista, at a store in El Paso, TX, requested a stool or small stepladder to do her job. Starbucks denied the request and fired her that same day. The company said she could have been a danger to employees and customers.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said after three days of training, the store should have made a reasonable accommodation for the woman.
From what I heard on local radio here in TX, Starbucks never hired her. They agreed to let her take the training, but at the end of it, they didn’t hire her. They also didn’t hire many others who took that 3 day training course at the same time.
While I most often feel the employers are unfairly burdened, I would go for the claimant here. Why? They hired her for crips sake. It is easier to argue a failure to hire than an unjust termination. She looked the same after training, didn’t shrink, the counters weren’t any higher? This is, by all appearances, someone second guessing the decision to hire. Stupidity should come with some penalty.
Four posts.
I wondered how many it would take.
Who knew, at the end of the yellow brick road, was a...Starbucks.
I never knew that Daniels worked at Starbucks. Vote Daniels, the little man for less government. Not really.
I would imagine from her moving around, she would have to have left the stool there and someone could trip. As a workers comp gal, I can totally see that. But not sure how to solve the ADA issues with that.
Liberal on Liberal fights. Gotta love it!
Being under, e.g., four and a half feet tall is not, in itself, a disability.
Rather, it is her environment which creates the impression that she is disabled.
By the same token, as you would not be inherently disabled, working amongst fellow coworkers who were all over 6-1/2 feet tall, in an environment with correspondingly high shelves, etc. - though you would, of course, be at a disadvantage.
Another example: If you were working in a factory with an extremely high noise level, but all of your coworkers were deaf - would you be disabled, because you, alone, were unable to function (withstand the decibels; understand complex gestures) in that environment?
Regards,
Stilts
Reading more articles, the details are not exact but it sounds like they observed her in training with a stool and she couldn't cut the mustard .... safely.
And every mile along it................
“I, for one, will not stand for discrimination against Gnomes.”
You’ll have to kneel.
Now I have to revise my ideal Democrat constituent member of the victim class
Dwarf/LP, female, gay, Black & Hispanic heritage.
‘how ‘bout a little service around here??’
Whatever will Robert B. Reich do for work now?
Wuz I too slow? It ain’t ez typin on one of these ‘smart’ phones.
excellent post!
“Whatever will Robert B. Reich do for work now?”
The court dwarf and gigolo for WNBA team.
Playing basketball in the NBA? Fireman? Bar bouncer? There are
appropriate places for persons of small stature to be employed. They
should not have the power to disrupt a business built for persons
of average size. That is an unreasonable “accomodation”. It is the
kind of nonsense that closes businesses due to outrageous costs that
far exceed the benefit.
He's not but his buddy Robert Reich is.
She Should sue the NBA for not letting her play.
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