She claims her decade-old setup disappeared and her hours were cut after she pushed back
A Lockheed Martin engineer claims the defense giant pulled her decade-old remote work setup, cut her hours, and punished her for speaking up.
The allegations come from a federal lawsuit filed on April 20, 2026, in the Northern District of Illinois, where Erin Lynn Jeffreys is suing Lockheed Martin Corporation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Illinois Human Rights Act. See Jeffreys v. Lockheed Martin Corp., No. 1:26-cv-04424. Lockheed has not yet responded, and nothing has been decided.
For HR leaders, the story reads like a case study in how a long-running, manager-approved accommodation can unravel once it runs through a formal process.
Jeffreys joined Lockheed in 2007 as a systems engineer supporting the F-22 Integrated Maintenance Information Systems program. She has scoliosis and, according to the filing, has lived with chronic pain after a failed spinal fusion and a second surgery in 2012 that did not resolve her condition. Starting in 2011, she says, a series of managers approved remote work, first part of the week, then part-time, then fully remote during the pandemic. In 2022, she claims the company even blessed her move from Fort Worth to Chicago, with her then-manager telling her that "you moving doesn't really change anything." Her performance reviews, by her account, stayed strong throughout.
The trouble started, she says, when she asked to return to...
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