Jenkins

Plaintiff and appellant Evelyn Jenkins was employed as a temporary employee by defendant and respondent County of Riverside (County). She alleged that after becoming disabled she was denied accommodation and wrongfully terminated. The trial court granted the County’s motion for summary judgment and gave judgment in favor of the County. We affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Plaintiff was originally hired in 1992 as a temporary County employee in the position of office assistant II (OAII). She worked full-time in the medical records department of the County hospital. Her initial task was to file old fetal monitor records which had piled up in the basement of the County medical building. Plaintiff was also trained in the general duties of the medical records department, and, once the backlog of fetal monitor files had been cleared away, her time was occupied with pulling medical charts and filing medical charts.

Pulling charts would consist of taking medical charts from shelves in a central storage area, or tracking down charts if they were not on the shelf. Plaintiff would pull hundreds of charts in a day. Some charts were heavy, about the weight of a heavy book. Some…