The Duty to Accommodate: What it Means for Employers in Today’s Workplaces
- 01:30 PM Mountain Time
Employers are seeing a significant increase in workplace accommodation requests, many involving mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and stress-related illnesses. Increasingly, these requests include recommendations for remote work arrangements or other substantial changes to an employee’s role, schedule, or work environment.
Managing accommodation requests can be complex. Employers must carefully balance their legal duty to accommodate with operational needs while navigating competing workplace interests and evolving legal expectations.
The McLennan Ross Labour & Employment team regularly advises employers on all aspects of the accommodation process, including responding to accommodation requests, requesting additional medical information, obtaining independent medical examinations, and assessing when proposed accommodations may amount to undue hardship.
Join Michael Aasen and Daniel Weber as they highlight key developments in workplace accommodation law and share practical strategies to manage requests while minimizing cost, disruption, and risk.
Topics covered in this webinar will include:
- Understanding the duty to accommodate
- Employer and employee responsibilities during the accommodation process
- Assessing and determining appropriate accommodations
- Understanding the legal threshold for undue hardship
- Managing accommodation requests involving remote work and other significant workplace changes
- The impact of accommodation requests on termination decisions for unrelated reasons
- Recent case law and emerging legal developments
- Best practices for documenting and responding to accommodation requests
Who should attend: This webinar is designed for in-house counsel, human resource and labour relations practitioners, and operations professionals.