The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed suit against Greater Baltimore Medical Center, alleging that it violated federal law by firing a clerk who had a genetic disorder and stroke-related impairments.
According to the complaint, filed in federal court, Michael E. Turner was fired in June 2006. Turner has neurofibromatosis, but was physically able to perform his duties, said Maria Salacuse, senior trial attorney for the commission.
"According to his personal physician, he could have returned without restrictions in May 2006," she said. But GBMC declared him incapable of working and failed to provide accommodations or reassign him to a different position that he would have been qualified to work, Salacuse said.
