This course is designed to help HR and EEO practitioners interpret the rules on reasonable accommodation of disabilities, a complex area of EEO law that poses serious challenges, with serious consequences for agencies that get it wrong. This course explains both the legal background and the practical process of providing -- and denying -- accommodation.
Course Components
Chapter 1: Requests for Accommodation
Chapter 2: Interactive Process
Chapter 3: Types of Accommodation
Chapter 4: Undue Hardship
Learning Outcomes
After completion of this course, you'll be able to:
- Recognize requests for accommodation.
- Determine whether requests come from qualified individuals with disabilities.
- Describe the interactive process for dealing with requests for accommodations.
- Explain the roles of medical information, documentation and examinations.
- List the principle types of accommodations.
- Explain the bar to compensatory damages when good faith efforts at accommodation are made.
- Describe the legal principle of "undue hardship."
- Complete chapter assessments with 100% mastery and the final assessment with 80% mastery.
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