A sheriff's officer who can't have contact with jail inmates due to an eye ailment has no basis to claim disability discrimination, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled. The court held that an employee must possess the bona fide occupational qualifications for his job before his employer must reasonably accommodate his disability under New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination. The justices overturned a $236,000 jury award to the sheriff's officer who had been forced into early retirement.
June 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A sheriff’s officer who can’t guard the jail due to an eye ailment has no basis to claim disability discrimination, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The court held, in Raspa v. Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office, A-53-06, that an employee must possess the bona fide occupational qualifications for his job before his employer is obligated to reasonably accommodate his disability under New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination.
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