Two of the more difficult reasonable accommodation requests that employers see are requests to be excused from shift and/or job rotation requirements. Last week, the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Kallail v. Alliant Energy Corporate Services, Inc. that an employer’s shift rotation requirement was an essential job function that permitted the employer to deny an employee’s request to be excused from the requirement as a reasonable accommodation for her Type I diabetes.
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