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Derek Tran: “The law requires the employer to accommodate to make sure…”

Featuring: Derek Tran, Democratic | U.S. House California, 45th Congressional District

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KET NOI CONG DONG 004 (2024-02-27) Consumer Attorneys of CA - Ls Derek Tran

Published | Video Starts at 24:03

The company doesn't want to deal with this injured employee anymore because maybe that employee can only work 75% or 50% of their capacity, but that's not the law. The law requires the employer to accommodate to make sure that employee can continue working. Right. And most of the time, we see that eventually the company fires the employee, and that's wrongful termination, and they discriminate it based on a disability. Yeah. (24:03–24:10)

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Asserts that the law mandates employers to provide accommodations for employees to continue working.

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