She got her job back in January - but not her back pay or her answers
A Maryland casino worker with multiple sclerosis says MGM fired her while her accommodation request still sat unanswered.
The worker, a full-time kitchen steward, has worked at MGM National Harbor since about December 2018, according to a complaint filed July 14, 2026, in federal court in Maryland. A union employee and shop steward, she has a known disability, and the filing says MGM accommodated her for years - including a February 2024 arrangement that let her sit briefly every two hours and take intermittent leave for flare-ups.
Things changed, the complaint alleges, when her condition worsened in May and June 2025. She asked to use an elevator and a closer time clock so she would not have to walk long distances - what her doctor described as the equivalent of several city blocks - to reach her station. According to the filing, MGM did not promptly approve the request. It asked for repeated medical clarification and left the matter open for months while she kept following up.
Around the same time, the complaint says, MGM told her she had not worked enough hours to recertify her intermittent FMLA leave. She disputed the calculation and says she spotted discrepancies between two timekeeping systems the company used - records labeled "Kronos Actuals" and records tied to "UKG Dimensions." She alleges her hours seemed to shrink rather than grow as the two sides compared numbers, and that MGM warned her...
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