An employer’s suggestion to a safety director, when denying his request for an iPad to facilitate reading lengthy documents while traveling among worksites, that he have his eyes examined was sufficient for a reasonable juror to find that the company was on notice of the employee’s disability, the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled.
The plaintiff, a safety director for a construction firm, was responsible for developing and executing workplace health and safety plans. He was required to read statutes and safety plans on his iPhone as he traveled among multiple worksites and used a safety audit software application to facilitate his work.
