Benchmarks: Employee may be late for work, N.Y. court says 
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Tags: AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, reasonable accommodation
A federal court decided yesterday that an employer may have violated federal discrimination law for having the audacity to require an employee to show up for work on time.
I guess next we’ll learn that it’s illegal to force an employee to actually work at work.
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