No Liability Under FEHA for Firing Employee Who Made Threats

Get CEs for reading this column, click here!By John P. Kamin, Legal EditorAn employer correctly toed the fine line in understanding the difference between disability-caused misconduct and the disability itself when it terminated a bipolar worker for threatening her co-workers, the 4th District Court of Appeal concluded in a published decision.The Superior Court of Orange County did not violate the Fair Employment and Housing Act when it terminated Linda Wills, a court clerk, for threatening her co-workers, according to the 4th DCA's published decision in Wills v. Superior Court of Orange C...