File With the EEOC or NYSDHR? (employees, employer, jobs, claim)

[Im-your-huckleberry]

I am in the process of drafting a complaint against my former employer for disability discrimination as well as retaliation.

Basically I provided the necessary medical documentation from my physician that the employer required to get the process started. After that everything still went down hill. I was still being instructed by one of the team leaders to do things that was against the reasonable accommodation that they approved.

The strange thing about it the jobs that they were forcing me to do wasn't done by all the employees so that can't claim that it was undue hardship to accommodate me.

As far as retaliation goes: I got the same team leader tell me " you don't need that kind of assistance other workers do".

During the final step of very project they will provide assistance. Everyone else would be provided assistance but me. Also everyone (employees) had a relief within their department but I was given a relief outside of my department so I would have to hunt and track down the person.

I have all of this one record.

I am hoping for mediation and hoping to get the matter resolved. I'm not unsure of which agency to go with.

Does anyone have any experience with filing me one of these agencies? I've read on some of the threads on here that EEOC mediation is a joke. I haven't seen much information on the NYSDHR.

I am hoping it won't due to the fact I have proof of the employer--through the team leader of failing to accommodate, retaliation -- based on denying assistance which is provided to other workers and providing me with a relief outside my department and giving all the other workers a relief within their own department.

Thanks for any information provided.

[Coco6163]

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