Legal Question in Disability Law in Virginia

Doctors orders

When a doctor says you can not return to work you are disabled even if it is only tempory right? If so can you be terminated for following orders? Do I have a case for discrimination


Asked on 9/17/07, 7:05 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: Doctors orders

No, and yes, you obviously can be, if you haven't the protection afforded to an employee by a contract or collective bargaining type of agreeement. What you have described would not appear to involve what the law recognizes as actionable discrimination prohibited by federal or state law.

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Answered on 9/17/07, 7:53 pm


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