I'm glad she won the case, but it really scares me. I have a history of both MI and addiction (alcoholism). I was given the option of resigning my last job, with a decent package due to my drinking, and my current employer was more than decent when I relapsed and had to go back into treatment last summer. But it still scares me. I know that I was shortlisted for several jobs when I was job hunting, and had preliminary phone screening interviews. Whenever I said I left my last job for medical reasons I never got to the inperson interview stage. When I changed my line to "having worked full time since uni. at a high stress job, I decided to take a year off to reconnect with family and friends" I got the interviews.

I had to disclose my depression to my new boss at work now because I need time off work to go to pdoc appointments and in Canada at least that's considered a disability that requires accomodation and legally can't be used as grounds for dissmissal. But nobody at work now knows about my addiction history - the only person who knew about it before was my former boss and she's been fired.

I work flex time to accomodate my addictions treatment program and I know several people in upper management aren't happy about it, so I will if I have to play the disabilities and reasonable accomodations card if I have to as addiction is also considered a disability legally in Canada, but I'm hoping it doesn't go there.