Re:Texas Woman with Cerebral Palsy: Uber Denied Her Service ...
by UncleEntity on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:53PM
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The difference is that at some point in your Uber "career" you will be expected to transport someone with a service animal and you can't legally refuse to transport them. The way the law is written you can't even ask to see proof it's a service animal, if someone tells you it's a service animal then it legally is a service animal to explicitly prevent this form of discrimination.
If you can't perform all the legal requirements of a job then there's a case to be made that you probably shouldn't be doing that job.
Re:Texas Woman with Cerebral Palsy: Uber Denied Her Service ...
by s73v3r_ on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:26PM
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Taxi drivers can't do any of that either, so I don't see the problem.
Re:Texas Woman with Cerebral Palsy: Uber Denied Her Service ...
by black_puppydog on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:00PM
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I agree with the last part at least. What I mean is "we can have a debate about whether the current legal requirements need exceptions for eg allergic drivers".
yes, some might. and we can have a debate about that. but most don't, and an allergy is explicitely not the reason all of the drivers in this case gave. so it doesn't apply here.