Lenovo fires employee for urinating in hotel's lobby, faces $1.5 million lawsuit
Lenovo has reportedly fired a computer salesman from the company for reportedly urinating in a hotel's lobby. Now the employee has sued the company for whopping $1.5 million.
Richard Becker, 66, was fired after he urinated in a Times Square hotel lobby due to a bladder condition. Now, he has accused the company of discrimination based on disability, according to a lawsuit filed last Friday in New York State Supreme Court.
The incident took place in February, after Becker attended a work-related dinner and returned to his hotel near New York's bustling Times Square. Overcome by an urgent need to relieve himself due to his chronic bladder condition, Becker claims he was forced to use a vestibule located on a separate floor from the main lobby. Although Becker's condition was well-known among his colleagues and managers at Lenovo, a coworker allegedly witnessed the incident and reported him to human resources. The lawsuit suggests that this coworker acted «out of spite and malice,» even though Becker’s actions, according to the filing, «caused no harm to anyone whatsoever.»
Becker, who has been dealing with a bladder condition since 2016 and remains under the care of a urologist, insists that Lenovo showed no understanding or legal compliance concerning his disability. Instead, just days after the incident, Becker was fired following what he describes as a «sham» HR investigation, during which he was not even given the opportunity to present his side of the story.
«No sympathy, let alone compliance with the law,
