In WV, can an employer designate specific parking spots for those employees with a Handicapped Placard?
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In WV, can an employer designate specific parking spots for those employees with a Handicapped Placard?
At work there are some dumpsters by the back door and there are a few parking spots marked off that are for employees with handicapped placards to use. Forever, we always squeezed 5 or 6 vehicles in this space. The other day the new lead security guard came to me and told me that I am not to park there unless I am parked in a
Asked on August 29, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, West Virginia
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
Can an employer designate certain spots for handicapped parking yes? Anyone who controls a parking lot is free to designate different areas for handicapped parking, for employee parking, for guest/visitor parking, etc.
However, the above said, employers MUST make "reasonable accommodations" to employee disability--which can include in terms of parking. If an employee can do his/her job but needs to park closer to the building, the employer should allow them to do so; the courtesy coach might be a reasonable accommodation if it ran often or quickly enough so that you could get work on time, but since that does appear to the case, they should allow you to park closer.
You could contact the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which enforces the anti-discrimination laws (including anti-disbility-based discrimination) to file a complaint if they will not give you parking which works for you, given your disability(ies).
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