The federal agency tasked with protecting Americans from workplace discrimination has filed a complaint against Hobby Lobby, alleging that the famously conservative crafting chain wrongfully fired an employee who relied on the use of a service dog.
According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a Kansas-based Hobby Lobby employee—identified in the filing only as S.C.—suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety. She uses a trained medical service dog, but according to the filing, she did not have one when she started working as a part-time clerk in late August of 2020.
S.C. worked as a cashier and various departments throughout the store in Olathe, Kansas, including unloading and stocking merchandise.
At the beginning of October, the complaint says, S.C. told her store manager that she was “obtaining a fully-trained medical service dog to assist her with symptoms related to her anxiety, depression, and PTSD, and she needed to bring the service dog to work with her.”
The manager asked for medical documentation, which S.C. provided in the form of a letter from her mental health provider in support of her request to bring the service dog to work. The manager referred the matter to the company’s corporate human resources department, which ultimately denied S.C.’s request for the service dog.
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