When Treating One Worker’s Allergy Sets Off Another’s

Her case is like King Solomon against Americans with Disabilities Act. The accident begins when a colleague of her ate Buffalo wings at their office. The wings comprised red pepper and paprika, to which Mrs. Kysela, 24 years old, suffers from a rare and potentially fatal allergy. She almost died five years ago because eating chili, and has since sent her to emergency room in hospital of allergy 5 times. This near death accident caused her learning on how to put allergy injections, 11 times, sometimes only in the vicinity of the respiratory peppers or paprika.

Fearing a deadly encounter with peppers has helped Mrs. Kysela parents and grandparents to buy her a dog that can detect allergies. The dog acted and functions like a drug allergy detection. After long talks with their employer, they gave her permission to have the dog at work. The Golden Retriever dog cost her family $ 10,000.

The first day Kysela Penny took the dog to office, one of his colleagues suffered an asthma attack because she is allergic to dog. That afternoon, Ms. Kysela surprised when her boss told her she could not work with the dog or pet allergy. Kysela has filed a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that her employer had against him by failing to accommodate her disability discrimination. Legal experts say the case raises difficult questions, such as conflict, the interests or people with disabilities to go and to what extent the employer reasonable accommodations for the workers under the Americans with Disabilities Act requires balance.

“I was sad and angry,” said Kysela. Greg Fehribach, city attorney, has denied that Indianapolis city had violated the law. Kysela said regulators had to think about holding a meeting where he explained his allergies went against his colleagues, and if the employees to eat foods that contain peppers at their desks. Several administrators and colleagues, the severity of the allergy Ms. Kysela questioned some see a strange, almost ridiculous rarity. In support of their cause two letters are Allergists say that his allergy was written lethal.

While working for the City’s code department, she had an allergy attack, because the small bar in her office building began serving pork peppers.

I do not think I deserve a preferential treatment for everyone, she said. Christopher said Kuczynski, assistant legal advisor to the division of the Americans with Disabilities Act, equal employment agency, declined to comment on his case because it is pending.