An Employee Who Works at a Grocery Store for Many

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Multiple Choice

An employee who works at a grocery store for many years as a checkout clerk becomes unable to operate the cash register because of pain in her fingers that has developed from pushing keys on the cash register for so long. Unqualified for any other job at the store, she is dismissed and sues for disability discrimination. Most likely she will:

• A) have the suit dismissed as she is not disabled for other employment
• B) be granted damages equal to the pay she would have collected had she remained at her position until retirement
• C) be granted whatever amount of damages the jury wishes to award
• D) be granted another position in the store as soon as one become available; she must be given priority in hiring
• E) be ordered reinstated into her previous job with an assistant to run the register (an accommodation)

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