What is the test for determining whether an adverse employment decision was motivated by associational discrimination?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Kelleher v. Fred A. Cook, Inc., 939 F.3d 465 (2nd Cir. 2019):
Graziadio v. Culinary Inst. of Am., 817 F.3d 415, 432 (2d Cir. 2016). One scenario that may support an inference that the adverse employment decision was motivated by associational discrimination is "distraction": the employer's "fear[ ] that the employee will be inattentive at work due to the disability of the disabled person." Id.
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