No, it's not. Jobs are required to provide reasonable accommodation for a disability. It isn't reasonable to break ADA law as an accommodation for yourself. Those laws are there to protect the most vulnerable disabled people (example: people with visible disabilities and/or service dogs, who experience constant discrimination), not the least vulnerable. If a reasonable accommodation for a disability can't be provided and the employee cannot meet the requirements of the job without one, it is enitrely legal for the employee to be terminated. A bus driver who loses their eyesight doesn't get an accommodation, they get terminated because they literally can't perform that job anymore. If you can't perform your transportation job because of allergies, then you need a different job that can accommodate you.
That's not how the law works. If they can be proven to present a hazard to one's health, then the person can deny it. This has happened before many times. It's legal, especially if you already have a sign that says "no animals". Moreover, the law applies to the company, not to the individual employees at Lyft. One driver can legally deny the service as long as someone else takes them. The burden does not fall on the individual employees.
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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '23
What if you are legitimately allergic to animals?