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A Canada Revenue Agency employee fired after forging 16 doctor notes to cover her absences while drunk or hung over has lost a legal bid to regain her job.

Mary Ann McNulty argued that the government had abridged her human rights by failing to accommodate her disability: alcoholism.

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But in a decision released Monday, the federal labour relations board said the CRA could not have discriminated against her because she kept her alcohol problem hidden from managers.

“It is both hard to envision and difficult to comprehend the grievor’s (McNulty’s) suggestion that the CRA should have accommodated her when it appears from the evidence before me that she had been resolute in concealing her disability and in thwarting any attempt at accommodation,” wrote John Jaworski, a labour relations adjudicator.

“It could not have accommodated someone who did not identify a need for one and who indeed steadfastly frustrated its attempts to help her.”