A woman is suing ABC Cable Networks Group, alleging she was stripped of her executive assistant job by a retaliatory boss who disregarded her disability and told her she could not set her own deadlines for getting work done despite her condition.

Clara Yoon’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit allegations include wrongful termination, disability discrimination and retaliation. She seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

An ABC Cable representative could not be immediately reached for comment on the suit brought Dec. 18.

Yoon was hired as an executive assistant in May 2019. She was assigned to work within the Disney Channel Original Movies team and supported executives responsible for developing, producing and distributing family-oriented original films for television and digital platforms.

Yoon was promoted in mid-2021 to a coordinator role that carried greater responsibility and visibility within the team. Her duties included preparing weekly updates for senior leadership, managing submissions and pitches for original movies, drafting script notes and coordinating across departments during production and post-production.

Yoon began struggling with an unspecified disability unrelated to her job in 2024 and she went on medical leave until May of this year. Upon her resuming work she sought accommodations that included being allowed to work mostly at home with longer deadline assignments, her suit states.

Employee relations initially approved Yoon’s accommodation requests, but her boss frequently disregarded her work restrictions by assigning her urgent, last-minute projects and then criticizing her for not meeting arbitrarily shortened deadlines, the suit alleges. Yoon believes her supervisor was irritated with her accommodations and wanted to retaliate, the suit further states.

When Yoon requested longer time to get her work done due to her condition, her boss allegedly said, “You can’t choose your deadlines” and “That’s not how the world works,” according to the complaint, which also contends that Yoon was excluded from meetings and that her boss credited himself for her good work and blamed her for any mistakes.

Yoon filed an internal complaint after she was issued a performance memo alleging missed deadlines and lack of attention to detail, providing her own extensive set of facts to support her retaliation claim, the suit states. But in September, management found that Yoon was not subjected to any backlash, a conclusion she believes was not reached in a fair and impartial manner.

Management also pressured Yoon to end remote working and told her that doing otherwise could jeopardize her job, so she provided a medical note explaining how she could gradually return to the office full-time by October, the suit states. Yoon also requested a cubicle with a door near a restroom as an accommodation, the suit further states.

Yoon was summoned to what she thought would be a routine virtual check-in with her boss and a human resources representative in September and terminated, the suit states.

She has suffered lost income and benefits as well as emotional distress and humiliation, according to her complaint.