Subaru worker sues automaker, says firing followed approved narcolepsy leave

Then, according to the filing, HR began asking questions. 

On or about July 15, 2025, two HR employees – identified in the complaint as “Logan” (last name unknown) and Associate Relations specialist Christina Whitley – questioned Compton about absences from two months earlier. He says he told them he had just taken his medication, had just woken from his nap, and was not in the right state of mind to answer. He asked for time to respond. 

That request was denied, the complaint says. Compton alleges HR did not engage in the interactive process – the give-and-take the ADA requires when an employee asks for an accommodation. He says he offered to provide doctor’s notes for the May 2025 absences and that the company refused. He emailed Whitley later that day with disability-related explanations. 

Two days later, on or about July 17, 2025, Compton says he asked Whitley for a fair treatment complaint form so he could formally complain about disability discrimination and FMLA retaliation. Instead of the form, the complaint says, he was walked into a meeting with Whitley and Production Manager Sherri Nordyke. 

In that meeting, according to the filing, Compton told the two managers that a Group Leader had bragged the company was weeding out employees who used FMLA. He says he raised harassment over his disability- and FMLA-related leave. The complaint alleges Nordyke interrupted him, told him he was not being harassed, and said he simply could not handle friendly banter. Compton says the complaint form never came.