Tag: duty to accommodate

Accommodating disabled workers–undue hardship in hard times?

By Chuck Harrison Oct 25, 2010 Northern Exposure

Updated: Oct 25, 2010

by Chuck Harrison When a warehouse worker was injured in a car accident in 2008, his employer did the right thing: Maersk Distribution accommodated his graduated return to work and provided him with light duties. Maersk stepped up again when the employee’s shoulder injury was further aggravated. But when the economy took a turn for […]

Supreme Court of Canada Helps Employers with Duty to Accommodate Disabilities

By Northern Exposure Jul 29, 2008 Northern Exposure

Updated: Jul 29, 2008

by Rachel Ravary McCarthy Tetrault Last week’s decision in Hydro Québec v. Syndicat des employé-e-s de techniques professionnelles et de bureau d’Hydro-Québec 2008 SCC 43 is good news for employers – finally there is a clear limit to your duty to accommodate employees who are chronically absent from work. Not only did the Supreme Court […]