Labor/Employment
May 21, 2010
Are Behavorial Disabilities Protected?
A case now heading to a California Court of Appeal highlights the question of whether people with behavioral disabilities are immune from workplace discipline for misconduct stemming from their disability.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - For eight years, Linda Wills worked her way up from temporary jobs to courtroom clerk at two Orange County courthouses.
In 2007, during medical leave for bipolar disorder, she sent several rambling, incoherent e-mails to friends and family, including some court employees - the result of a severe manic episode.
Six months later, Wills was fired. What happen...
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