Lenovo fired a salesman for urinating in the hotel lobby employee sues 1.5 million dollars

When popular PC-laptop brand Lenovo fired an employee, he demanded compensation. The whole matter is related to Lenovo’s computer salesman. Actually, the salesman urinated in the lobby of America’s Times Square Hotel. After this he was fired from the job. The salesman approached the New York court and demanded damages of $ 1.5 million (about Rs 12.58 crore) from the company.

AFP’s Report According to , this case is related to 66-year-old Richard Baker, a salesman at Lenovo. He said that due to bladder related disease, he was forced to urinate in the hotel lobby, after which the company fired him from the job.

Richard has accused the company of violating New York City’s human rights laws. He has also accused the company of discriminating on the basis of disability.

The incident occurred in February this year. Richard has claimed in his case that after the official dinner, he was returning to his hotel near Times Square, New York. Due to bladder problem, he could not control himself for long and urinated in the verandah located on a floor separate from the main lobby of the hotel. Research says that one of his co-workers saw him and informed HR about it.

Richard says that because of him no one faced any problem there. Richard has been suffering from a chronic bladder condition since 2016 and is being treated by a urologist. The court was told that his colleagues and managers at Lenovo were aware of Richard’s illness.

The case states that Lenovo did not show any sympathy towards its employee. Within a few days he was fired from his job. For show, an HR ‘investigation’ was conducted and he was not even interviewed. Lenovo has not yet commented on this matter.