What is the HRTO duty to accommodate an employee with a disability?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Pazhaidam v. North York General Hospital, 2014 HRTO 984 (CanLII):
The applicant stated that the procedural duty to accommodate includes obtaining relevant information about the employee’s disability and considering and exploring options that may be available to accommodate the disability up to the point of undue hardship: Goad v. 1681078 Ontario, 2010 HRTO 817 at paragraph 29.
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