UNIV 3985 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, Reasonable Accommodation, Utah Transit Authority
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Employers have a duty to provide reasonable accommodations to their employees with disabilities. Enable them to perform the essential functions of their job. Once accommodation provided, treat like any other employee. Balancing the health and safety needs of a company"s workforce with the expectation. Ada and covid 19 not to illegally discriminate. Cannot exclude employees unless they create a direct threat to the health and safety to others that cannot be eliminated by a reasonable accommodation. Employers can require employees to stay home during pandemic. Ada permissible actions by employers under covid 19. Send employees home if they display covid-19 symptoms. Ask employees who are ill about their symptoms to determine if they have covid-19. Measure employees" body temperature to detect risk of covid-19. After making a conditional job offer, as long as it does screening for all similarly situated employees. Require applicants to take a post-offer, pre-employment medical exam.
