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Fitness for Duty
How do Employers Make a “Direct Threat” Determination
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is 30 years old and employers are familiar with its general requirement to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals (applicants and employees) with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. A reasonable accommodation is any change or adjustment to a jo...
What is a Fitness for Duty form?
Recently, a client called to ask about an employee who had complained about a back and shoulder injury. The employee told his foreman that he did not feel that he was physically capable of performing his normal work duties as a construction laborer due to pain. He asserted that it was a workers’ compensation case......
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