of AFP Report According to the report, this case is related to 66-year-old Richard Baker, who was a salesman at Lenovo. He says that due to a bladder-related disease, he was forced to urinate in the hotel lobby, after which the company fired him from his job.
Richard has accused the company of violating New York City’s human rights laws. He has also accused the company of discriminating on the basis of disability.
The incident happened in February this year. Richard has claimed in his case that after an official dinner, he was returning to his hotel near Times Square in New York. Due to bladder problems, he could not control himself for long and urinated in the veranda located on a floor different from the main lobby of the hotel. Research says that one of his co-workers saw him and informed HR about this.
Richard says that no one there had any problem because of him. Richard has been suffering from a chronic bladder condition since 2016 and is being treated by a urologist. The court has been told that his colleagues and managers at Lenovo were aware of Richard’s illness.
The case states that Lenovo showed no sympathy for the employee. He was fired within a few days. An HR ‘investigation’ was conducted for the sake of appearances and he was not even interviewed. Lenovo has not yet commented on the matter.
