--- title: First COVID-19 ADA Accommodation Lawsuit Filed description: The EEOC recently filed the first COVID-19 pandemic-related disability discrimination lawsuit about a remote work request for an ADA accommodation. image: https://blog.nisbenefits.com/hubfs/blog-headers/ada%20lawsuit%20B-1.jpg --- ![First COVID-19 ADA Accommodation Lawsuit Filed](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/hubfs/blog-headers/ada%20lawsuit%20B-1.jpg) # First COVID-19 ADA Accommodation Lawsuit Filed - Home - [Employee Benefit News for School, City and County Employers](https://blog.nisbenefits.com) - First COVID-19 ADA Accommodation Lawsuit Filed [ Bill Disch ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/author/bill-disch) 09/27/2021 [ Legislative News](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/topic/aca-other-legislative-news), [ COVID-19](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/topic/covid-19) [0 Comments ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/first-covid-19-ada-accommodation-lawsuit-filed#postComment) 1 Minutes *1.5 minute read* The Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently filed a disability discrimination lawsuit. This is the first COVID-19 pandemic-related lawsuit the EEOC has filed about a remote work request for an American with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodation. The suit states that a workplace experience and facility management company unlawfully denied its employee’s reasonable request for an accommodation for her disability. After employees were working remotely four days a week from March to June 2020, the company reopened. One employee requested to continue to work remote for two days per week and take frequent breaks due to a pulmonary condition. The company allowed other employees in similar positions to work from home but denied this employee’s request and shortly after, fired her. Even pre-pandemic, the EEOC supports remote work as a reasonable accommodation under the ACA. However, it is up to the courts whether they agree that remote work should be considered a reasonable accommodation for disabilities. 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