A North Carolina district court recently declined to dismiss a failure to accommodate and wrongful termination action brought by the EEOC on behalf of a patient accounts representative in EEOC v. Advance Home Care, Inc. (“Advance”). The plaintiff was discharged after she could not return to work without restrictions following exhaustion of her FMLA leave. The court held that the EEOC’s complaint adequately alleged that the employee was qualified for her position and linked Advance Home Care’s alleged failure to accommodate to the discharge.
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