If your employee isn’t a professional driver but spends a lot of time on the road, how “essential” a job function is driving for ADA purposes? Is driving “essential” at all? This is a big deal. Under ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) only requires employers to provide accommodations that allow the disabled employee or applicant to perform the essential functions of the job. The employer is ...

In ADA suits, courts often have to decide what constitutes an essential job function, as the law sometimes requires that employers remove marginal function as an accommodation, but not essential ...

Courts often give deference to employers when it comes to essential functions. This determination is relevant in ADA claims because the law doesn't require that employers remove essential functions as ...

The job summary consists of one or two sentences describing why the position was created and why it exists, period. Essential functions are fundamental duties that an employee must be able to perform ...