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Disability Issues in the Public WorkplaceEloise, a supervisor at the Federal Administration Agency (FAA), was approach with trying to ensure productivity when one of her featers became ill, and was not maintaining her level of lay down. Brenda, who had been a computer programmer for the Management Information Systems Support Division of the FAA for nine years, was diagnosed with converge cancer in January of 1991. She left work immediately to have an operation and to start treatments. Brenda was supposed to return to work after the medical procedure so Eloise reached out to her in February. Brenda stated that she did not feel up to it, that she would continue to use her sick leave and would return in March. Seeing that Brenda would not be back in the near future, Eloise asked the other workers in the office to pitch in and help pick up the slack in work overdue to her absence. To entice one employee to pitch in, she upgraded his work status from a GS7 to a GS9 (which is what Br endas status was) until Brenda returned. In March, Brenda could not return to work on her schedule date and had her medical leave extended until she became better accustomed to the chemotherapy treatments. Brenda returned to work on April 1st. She was apparently not up to speed and could not handle the work that was assigned to her. In addition, she stated that she needed some accommodations in order to stay at work. These accommodations included rest hours during the workday and the need to leave work early on certain days. Eloise allowed these accommodations. When Brenda started taking breaks and putting her feet up on her desk to relax, the other workers didnt seem to mind, and they would even try to be quiet near her. Brenda felt like the other workers had changed their attitude towards her and freeze up when she came into the room. Eloise tried to explain that it would be natural for the others to feel uncomfortable around her and recommended that Brenda speak to Employee Coun seling. Brenda refused and short thereafter started to call in sick again. Even with Brendas return, the other workers still had to continue doing her work. The worker that Eloise upgraded to a GS9 was returned to GS7 upon Brendas return. He refused to do Brendas work unless he was reinstated to GS9 status.