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After two interviews and a couple hours of job shadowing, Beth Baras was offered a full-time position behind the deli counter at Woodstock Farmers’ Market, an upscale grocery on the west side of town (not the open-air farmstand-fest the name implies.)
Five days later, Woodstock Farmers’ Market, which began as a family-owned business in 1992, notified Baras via email that it was withdrawing the job offer.
What changed?
For starters, Baras, who was in her early 60s at the time, disclosed that she had a disability. In the same email to the market’s human resources manager before beginning her new job, which was to pay $12.50 an hour, Baras sought two accommodations: