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45 Minute “Dressing Down” Does Not Support ADA Constructive Discharge Claim

Posted on December 15, 2013
Posted in ADA

An employee who claimed her supervisor “dressed [her] down” for 45 minutes, telling her during the tirade that she was unqualified for her job “because bipolar people are deficient, flighty, dishonest and untrustworthy,” cannot establish her constructive discharge claim, according to the Eleventh Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Menzie v. Ann Taylor Retail…

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