A former UBS advisor has sued the wirehouse, alleging it violated his rights below the People with Disabilities Act by “failing to moderately accommodate” his therapy for melancholy.

In a grievance filed Friday at U.S. District Courtroom for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Timothy Joseph Trott stated he left Merrill Lynch after seven years to affix the wirehouse in December 2008, understanding of a department workplace of the agency in Erie, Pennsylvania, as a monetary advisor.

Trott obtained a recruiting bonus of $454,670 that, in widespread trade observe, was secured by a promissory observe to be forgiven if he remained with UBS by means of Jan. 2, 2018, in response to the grievance.

In April 2015, Trott began to expertise main depressive dysfunction and nervousness that affected his skill to work successfully. Because of this, he took a two-week depart of absence from the wirehouse, in response to the grievance.

Trott then returned to work however took a medical depart for the second time shortly after that, in June 2015, when he was dedicated to a psychological well being facility, the grievance acknowledged. Trott was positioned on unpaid medical depart by the wirehouse and instructed he must acquire medical clearance earlier than being allowed to return to work.

In April 2016, Trott improved sufficient for his psychiatrist to approve a 15- to 20-hour weekly return-to-work plan that will be reevaluated after the advisor labored a couple of weeks, in response to the grievance.

Trott supplied his physician’s urged part-time work plan to UBS however the firm didn’t present a response and ignored his inquiries about it for nearly a yr, the grievance alleged.

On July 14, 2017, Trott obtained a letter from Stephanie Basham from the UBS human sources workplace, dated June 28, 2017, informing him he was terminated efficient as of that date, due to the response to a Could 12, 2017, letter that suggested Trott he was not but in a position to work. in response to the grievance.