Discrimination | Disabled employee fired 'for eating a pear'

In most circumstances, when an employee is dismissed from an organisation it is due to misconduct, for example, harassing a colleague or stealing from an employer.

However, one worker has cited allegations of discrimination after he was fired for eating a pear, reported the Daily Mail.

The former UPS worker is suing the company claiming that the organisation let him go for eating the fruit because bosses wanted to get rid of him due to his severe disabilities.

William Cortez, who worked at UPS’s Battery Park location in Manhattan, New York, from 2004 to 2019, revealed that the HR department told him he was being let go due to the instance with the fruit.