A New Jersey woman sued her company because it would not allow her to come in late and leave early.
Andrea DeGerolamo worked at Fulton Financial Corporation as a marketing consultant for about five years before things started to go array. At about the five-year-mark, DeGerolamo began to feel mass amounts of anxiety and depression, which was allegedly aggravated by crowded roadways found during rush hour traffic.
DeGerolamo’s attorneys argued that her condition could qualify as a disability, especially considering she left the Lancaster-based company on medical leave for several months in 2012. When she returned to work, she requested that the company allow her to work a schedule “by which she could come in after morning rush hour and leave prior to evening rush hour".
The company obliged the request for a short time but later refused to continue to accommodate her needs.
DeGerolamo also claimed that when she returned from medical leave that her duties were downgraded “improperly” to clerical-type work. When she filed a complaint to the ethic board the only response she heard was that she was being terminated.
She filed suit in Camden County, New Jersey initially. The case has since been moved to federal court in Camden at Fulton Financial’s request.
It is still unknown when the case will actually be heard.