Ex-Employee Claims Class Appraisal Fired Her Due to Multiple Sclerosis

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An individual formerly employed as a quality control appraiser by Class Appraisal, Inc. has filed a proposed class action against the company alleging it violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) when it threatened to fire her after her multiple sclerosis worsened.

The plaintiff, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2011 and is wheelchair bound, claims in the complaint that her illness affected her motor functions to the extent that it became necessary for her to work from home and away from an “office setting.” Upon providing documentation from her neurologist, the plaintiff was granted her request to work from home by the defendant’s CEO in October 2012. Here, the complaint notes the plaintiff worked from home for a minimum of 35 hours per week and performed her job duties remotely “at no hardship to [the defendant].”

The case claims the plaintiff was informed in January 2013 that her work-from-home privileges had been revoked and that she would need to come back to the office. When the plaintiff objected to this, the case claims she was referred to the company’s then-new operations manager, who told her the defendant no longer had a work-from-home program. The plaintiff responded saying she was never a part of any program, and that her work status was an accommodation for her disability.

Even after providing more medical evidence of her condition and its symptoms, the plaintiff claims she was given a deadline to either return to the office to work or have the operations manager “voluntarily resign [her].” After some back-and-forth via email with another high-ranking employee, the plaintiff’s employment was effectively terminated, the lawsuit says.

From here, the plaintiff alleged contacted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which “found caused to believe that [the defendant’s] actions violated the [ADA].”