7/2/2015 12:37:00 AM
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Alcoa Ordered to Pay $1.5m to Injured Worker
Alcoa Fastening Systems was ordered to pay $1.5 million to a 62-year-old employee who was fired instead of given a chance to take other available jobs when he returned from a lengthy medical leave caused by an on-the-job injury, MyNewsLA.com reports.
Trial testimony showed Raymond Adame worked for 38 years at AFS in Industry, CA. Adame reportedly operated machinery that made aircraft fasteners.
“Adame was hurt in July 2007 when a transformer fell on him and was off work for more than two years,” writes Hillary Jackson of MyNewsLA.com. “When he returned, he asked for work that would require the lifting of lighter loads, and several jobs were available that he could have filled.”
Adame claimed the company’s head of human resources told him, “You have disabilities” and “You have to be 100 percent healthy to work at Alcoa … That’s our corporate policy.”
Adame was given sorting and inventory work for about a week before he was fired, according to his court papers.
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