Employers must make considerable effort to tailor job duties to the needs of a disabled worker, the state Supreme Court has ruled in a decision that one employment lawyer described as “huge.”
The justices, in a case involving an injured worker who was struggling to perform a warehouse job, ruled last week that even though Connecticut’s Fair Employment Practices Act doesn’t include the same “reasonable accommodation” language of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, the same principle applies.
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