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Reasonable accommodations for disabled employees need to be reasonable, not perfect

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I won’t bury the lede, which I’ll quote from the Fourth Circuit decision I read last night.

The [Americans with Disabilities Act] requires reasonableness, not perfection. Reasonableness does not demand that an accommodation have an airtight solution to every contingency conceivable. Its dictates are tethered to the practical realities of each case, not boundless hypotheticals.

In this case, a home health care aide with chronic arthritis in her knees refused to perform field assignments. She rejected a proposed accommodation from her employer that would have permitted her to preview and self-select which home-care assignments to accept. (More on this in

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