We posted previously about the Seventh Circuit holding in EEOC v. United Airlines that, in deciding whether a disabled employee who cannot perform the essential functions of his or her position is entitled to a vacant position as an accommodation under the ADA, the employer must disregard its policy of awarding positions to the best-qualified
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Seventh Circuit Tips Balance on ADA’s Accommodation of Last Resort
By Jackson Lewis P.C. on
Posted in ADA
When an employee cannot perform the essential functions of his or her position, with or without an accommodation due to a disability, an employer must consider “the accommodation of last resort”—transfer to a vacant lateral or lower position for which the employee is qualified.
Circuit courts had been evenly divided on whether an individual with…