Sentences with phrase «to accommodate a disability»

The court noted that generally, an employer is not required to accommodate a disability by allowing the disabled worker to work without supervision at home.

Whether the employer can reasonably accommodate the disability without undue hardship.

We often remind our clients not to rush to the conclusion that they must accommodate every disability presented by an employee.

The provisions regarding special programs can not be used as a defense in place of a service provider's responsibility to accommodate disability short of undue hardship.

The duty to accommodate a disability exists for needs that are known.

BookNet Canada will notify the public and staff that, when requested, we will accommodate disabilities during recruitment and assessment processes and when people are hired.

For more information or for assistance in accommodating a disability, please contact BJ Danetra

The question to be decided was whether the administrative decision of the CLP was consistent with the duty to accommodate a disability under the Charter and subject to the reasonableness standard: did the CLP's decision balance the right protected by the Charter and the objectives sought under the AIAOD?

She will also consult on process innovations, applying her hard - won expertise to design a workplace that doesn't merely accommodate disabilities but is shaped around them.

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is reasonably necessary for the accomplishment of the objective, such that it is impossible for the carriers to accommodate the disability without imposing undue hardship on the carriers.

Concluding Keays was dismissed, in part, because he hired a lawyer and to avoid accommodating his disability, an Ontario judge granted him the largest punitive damages award in Canadian employment law history.

The Cost of Failing in the Duty to Accommodate Disability at the McInnes Cooper Labour & Employment Annual Seminar.

Obtained an award of $ 291,773 plus the expungement and revision of his client's U5, for a former employee who alleged retaliation for complaining about the refusal to continue accommodating her disability restrictions.

In appropriate cases, where such individuals can establish discrimination based on an employer policy or conduct, then they certainly are entitled to remedies under the human rights legislation, including the duty to accommodate their disability unless it amounts to an undue hardship.

Jaffer claims that York failed to properly accommodate his disability, and had detrimentally relied on an alleged promise by a professor to defer his status while the dispute over disability was resolved which would have allowed him to continue his studies the following year.

In Fair's case, the tribunal summarized the discriminatory conduct, namely the failure to accommodate her disability related needs as follows:

Those cases often involve landlords» refusal to let people alter their units or otherwise accommodate a disability or refusal to rent or provide services to families with children.

We will notify the public and employees that Sunny Crunch Foods Inc. will accommodate disabilities during the recruitment process.

In Baber v. York Region District School Board, 2011 HRTO 213, the applicant Rozana Baber claimed that the York Region District School Board failed to accommodate her disability by not granting her a teaching assignment as a teacher / librarian and by refusing to exempt her from a Teacher Performance Appraisal («TPA»).

g) Dr. Kelly was in a vulnerable position as both a student and resident who suffered from a mental disability, was compliant with the requests for medical information made of him by UBC, and was dependent upon them to reasonably accommodate his disabilities in order to complete his residency.

In short, where an employee injury qualifies as a disability, the employer's efforts to return the employee to work under the Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases are not sufficient to satisfy the employer's obligation to accommodate a disability under the Charter.

If the faulty driver survives, but is disabled as a result, society has no obligation to accommodate his disability.

I implemented a no - laptop, no - phone policy in both my classes this fall — while noting students who wished to use technology to accommodate a disability could do so.

The Education Department document does strongly indicate that students with disabilities have the right to access separate, competitive sports leagues that can accommodate their disability, whether at school or in the community.

Must an airline provide me with a seat in a different class of service to accommodate my disability?

VA Adapted Housing Grants: This is a program that helps veterans with a permanent, service - connected disability with the purchase, construction of an adapted home or improvement of an existing home to accommodate a disability.

The federal government offers grants to eligible disabled veterans to help them buy, build or adapt homes to accommodate their disabilities.

Can a disabled veterinarian be prevented from participating in his chosen profession in ways that accommodate his disabilities?

The Turkish people I met went above and beyond to accommodate my disabilities, to talk with me, to teach me, and to care for me.

We chose slow travel to accommodate my disabilities, and the rhythms of family travel.

This includes dealing with employees in good faith, not subjecting them to workplace harassment, and accommodating their disabilities.

any other person who requires additional seating to accommodate a disability would be entitled to that seating free of charge; and

Where, for example, a registrant or member suffers from an alcohol or drug addiction, a regulator must accommodate that disability to the point of undue hardship when addressing professional misconduct resulting from that disability, or when addressing the registrant's competence, or when acting under any provision relating specifically to addictions that may impair the professional's ability to practice, e.g., under sections 33 (4)(e) and 39 (1)(e) of the Health Professions Act.

Employers should be mindful to consult with an applicant who requests accommodation at an early stage, and to get written input as to what will be required to accommodate the disability during the interview process.

The judge found that Mr Hardy suffered from chronic pain such that smoking marijuana might relieve it but also that «there is no persuasive evidence before me that smoking marijuana, rather than ingesting it in another form, is necessary to accommodate his disability.»

The policy statement refers to the OHRC's updated policy on the duty to accommodate disabilities and protect the disabled against discrimination that was released last year, noting the role of medical professionals in the accommodation process and the type and scope of medical information needed to give employers.

In an attempt to accommodate her disability, the School Board and the employee agreed upon an exposure control plan that would allow the employee to take steps to minimize her allergic reaction, including leaving the workplace if necessary.

Zellers countered that Mr. Balsara had not informed them that his pain had worsened, and stated that they could not be expected to accommodate a disability they were not made aware of.

These protections include an employer's obligation to accommodate the disability, as well as a general prohibition against terminating an employee's employment as a result of the disability.

An employer must try to adjust your work environment to accommodate your disability to the point of undue hardship.

That court agreed regarding the dismissal of the ADA claim and the remand of the CEPA claim, but it ruled that the lower courts should not have thrown out the employee's LAD claim for the failure to accommodate his disability (and the jury verdict that went with it).

Zellers thus did not fail to accommodate his disability nor did they discriminate against him by terminating him.

Ms. Baber brought an application before the HRTO, claiming that the Board had breached its duty to accommodate her disability by failing to exempt her from the TPA process during the 2008/2009 school year, by failing to change her teaching assignment to that of a teacher / librarian and by terminating her employment.

The Human Rights Tribunal held this to be a significant failure to accommodate a disability.

In such cases, the duty to accommodate a disability may require employers to accommodate the medical use of marijuana.

Campbell brought forward a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal alleging that she experienced discrimination in two respects: 1) failure on the part of Revera to accommodate her disability and 2) that the decision to terminate her employment was contrary to the Code.