For three years, Daniel Herrmann, 38, worked in customer service for Merrill Lynch and then Bank of America after BoA acquired Merrill Lynch in January 2010. He said he was fired on Sept. 20, 2010 for being one to two minutes late from his lunch break due to the fact that it took him longer to walk from the lunch room because of a limp....

"We've filed this lawsuit because Bank of America's conduct was unacceptable and the company should be held accountable when its supervisors and managers violate the law," she said. "Dan was repeatedly told that accommodating him 'wouldn't be fair to people with two hands.' The Americans with Disabilities Act exists to ensure that disabled workers receive reasonable accommodations from their employers and are not retaliated against when they request accommodation."...

He said Merrill Lynch had accommodated his disability, "which substantially limited his ability to type because he was unable to use his right hand for this activity at all," the suit states. Those accommodations included providing a left-handed keyboard and "permitting him to pause between calls so he could type the required information into the computer system using just his left hand," the suit states.

But when Herrmann's job was transferred to Bank of America's customer service department, he said his supervisors no longer allowed him "to take any time between calls to enter information into the computer system," which caused him to average three or four calls per hour and precluded his ability to receive bonuses.