Termination warranted for job abandonment

The employee used a previous injury, and the long-term medical restrictions it placed him under, as a tool to avoid the jobs he didn’t want to do. Management finally called him on his refusal.

A worker at a city-operated homeless shelter was fired when he failed to return to work as directed. The employer said the worker had abandoned his job. The worker said that the job did not adequately accommodate his permanent restrictions.

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