Please imagine the following hypothetical to answer this essay. You are the mana
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Please imagine the following hypothetical to answer this essay. You are the manager for a large warehouse that does order fulfillment for an online company. Your employees spend their days moving up and down the aisles, retrieving goods for shipment to customers. They must move very quickly and efficiently to retrieve items and bring them back to the shipping desk. Although they are not required to run, employees always end up running up and down the aisles at some point during the day, because their daily quotas are set very high to insure maximum efficiency. You worked on the floor yourself before becoming manager, and you can't imagine being able to walk fast enough to complete the daily quotas.
One day, an employee comes to you with a letter from her doctor. The letter says that, due to a bulging disc in her back, she cannot do any high impact activities such as running or jumping. However, she is able to walk.
When you tell the employee you are concerned that she will not be able to meet her quotas without running, your employee says you shouldn't worry. "I can run a little," she says. "My doctor is just being really protective. But I would like you to change my route in the warehouse so I can run less."
There is one shorter route in the warehouse that a senior employee is typically given that does involve less running, though you've never seen an employee make their quotas here without any running.
You need to decide whether to grant your employee's request and give her the accommodation she has requested.
Now, answer the following questions, based on that case and your understanding of the ADA.
1) Assuming that the employee's back condition qualifies as a disability, what is the standard (rule) for determining whether she should be given the accommodation she requests?
2) Is this a reasonable accommodation? Based on Horn v. Knight Facilities, do you think your factory would be required to provide the employee the shorter route in the warehouse?
Explanation / Answer
Q1.
As the employee is suffering from health issues, she needs to be considered in this situation. As per health benefits rule, she should be provided with all facilities and accommodation so that she needs to run less and can continue with her work. On the basis of proper verification of her health conditions, she should be provided with all the needs to work better in the organization by less traveling.
Q2.
Yes, this is reasonable to provide accommodation to her as she is not physically fit to run on different routes. The factory can take two conditions, one condition is the factory can give her shortest route after verifying her physical disability and another thing she can be given a few day holiday to make her cure from the health issues and then after to join in the work with full force.