Martin v. Winn-Dixie Louisiana, Inc.

ORDER AND RULING ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

JUDGE JOHN W. deGRAVELLES, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA

I. INTRODUCTION

Lately pregnant, a long-term employee, a certain store’s co-director, asks her direct supervisor for a restructured set of duties, i.e. an accommodation of responsibilities, none deemed “essential” or “primary.” Her doctor advises it; the health of baby and mother demand it. To her, it seems neither unusual nor problematic, her proposed alterations having been previously afforded by her employer to many other colleagues laboring under…