Category: Reasonable Accommodations
Reasonable Accommodations
Under both California State and Federal laws, employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations for those applicants and employees who, because of their disability, are unable to perform the essential functions of their job, unless the accommodation would represent an undue hardship. Reasonable accommodation is any appropriate measure that would allow the individual to successfully and safely perform the essential functions of the job. DMG is skilled at helping employers navigate through the process of identifying and evaluating accommodation requests and ideas to support positive employment outcomes and employer legal compliance.
Keep Calm and Remember the “Interactive Process”
Resources for an Easier, More Effective Accommodation Process An employee discloses being diagnosed with a condition that impairs vision, and is already encountering difficulties at work due to the condition. The employee asks: “could you buy me a program I found on...
Building a Better Return-to-Work Program
Building a Better Return-to-Work Program This past summer I had the pleasure of working as co-lead of the Transition Back to Work Policy Work Group. Under the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy’s (ODEP’s) Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work...
When is enough….ENOUGH? Leave as a reasonable accommodation
Recent Posts Strategies to Support Employees’ Ongoing Employment Training is the key to compliance Keep Calm and Remember the “Interactive Process” Building a Better Return-to-Work Program When is enough….ENOUGH? Leave as a reasonable accommodation...