Chapter 3 – Personnel, Training, and Employee Relations

31040.4.3.17 Reasonable Accommodation

• Reasonable Accommodation (RA) is any modification or adjustment to a job and/or the work environment that is effective in enabling an employee or applicant to perform the essential functions of the job the employee or applicant holds or desires. RA’s may include, but are not limited to, providing assistive aids and services such as qualified readers or interpreters, job re-structuring, providing a modified schedule, providing additional training, providing paid or unpaid leave, or transfer/demotion, which are accommodations of last resort when no other accommodation is possible in the employee’s current position.

• The Department must reasonably accommodate a qualified individual with a disability, if that individual can perform the essential functions of his or her job with the RA. Failure to provide a RA to the known physical or mental limitations, or medical condition of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, absent an undue hardship to the Department, is considered discriminatory.