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Employer Reasonably Accommodated Worker's Fibromyalgia

By Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)

Monday, January 7, 2013 | 0

A municipal employer who allowed an employee to miss more than one out of every 10 days of work over a two-year period because of her fibromyalgia and made arrangements for her to work from home, made sufficient accommodation for the worker's disabilities, the 6th District Court of Appeal ruled.Case: Andrade v. City of Milpitas, No. H037124, 01/04/2012, unpublished.Facts: Yvonne Andrade worked for the City of Milpitas as an office specialist for the planning and neighborhood services department. In the spring of 2008, her doctor diagnosed her with fibromyalgia, and Andrade took a medi...

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