{"id":759,"date":"2017-08-10T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=759"},"modified":"2022-06-05T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T00:50:56","slug":"medical-verification-for-the-interactive-accommodation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/medical-verification-for-the-interactive-accommodation-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Verification for the Interactive Accommodation Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee with a disability, which is defined as a significant impairment of a major life acitivty.&nbsp;Providing &#8220;reasonable accommodation&#8221; is an interactive process, a collaborative effort involving employer and employee to determine how modifications can be made for the qualified individual (QID).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent webinar, ES&amp;A Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esandalaw.com\/staff\/trisha-gibo\"><strong>Trisha Gibo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0discussed\u00a0&#8220;Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) &amp; Reasonable Accommodations,&#8221;\u00a0including how to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>identify a QID using the acronym &#8220;I-D-E-A&#8221; (Impairment, Disabling, Essential Function, Accommodation)<\/li><li>obtain medical verification of the disability from a health care professional.<\/li><li>discuss and select reasonable accommodation<\/li><li>recognize &#8220;direct threats&#8221; and other special situations<\/li><li>understand the differences between federal and state laws, regarding burden of proof, job descriptions, undue hardship, and damages<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRHp-jwaa6bDGx7P5QUI-vkQDEs9hqyBdvNI5vAjgIkd7bWdzdMVJ684g8qlpAEoBc5pbHj0d8WrkSz\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee with a disability, which is defined as a significant impairment of a major life acitivty.&nbsp;Providing &#8220;reasonable accommodation&#8221; is an interactive process, a collaborative effort involving employer and employee to determine how modifications can be made for the qualified individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}