The Reasonable Accommodation Training Group Is Presenting At The Ohio State University

Benjamin E. Wick and Holly V. Franson of the Reasonable Accommodation Training Group will be presenting Understanding Reasonable Accommodations Under the ADAAA and Emerging Issues In the Law at the Ohio State University’s 15th Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability Conference on April 13, 2015. The presentation provides an overview of the employer’s obligations under the ADAAA, with a particular focus on the issues that are most often a source of litigation: identifying and accommodating the essential functions of an employee’s position; and whether the employer can establish that accommodating an employee would pose an undue hardship.  The presentation will also discuss three emerging issues in the area of reasonable accommodation law: (1) obesity as a disability; (2) comfort animals as a reasonable accommodation; and (3) accommodating transgender employees. Conference information can be found at http://ada.osu.edu/conferences/2015Conf/2015conf.html