'After they disciplined him, they gave him support, but expected him to function in the workplace and held him accountable'
“It's always important to hear out your employee when you're faced with requests for accommodation, but that doesn't obviate the need for them to meet their own duty to accommodate,” says Ruth Trask, an employment lawyer at Stewart McKelvey in St. John’s, after the Newfoundland and Labrador Board of Inquiry dismissed a worker’s discrimination complaint despite the fact his disability was a factor in the termination.