Remote work as a reasonable accommodation under ADA?

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, an employee with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation. An employer does not have to grant it if means an essential part of the job can’t be performed. Take the case of an employee in a real estate law firm whose job included maintaining physical files and meeting with clients to sign and notarize documents at real estate closings. The employee, who had an autoimmune condition, requested full-time remote work. An appellate court in Connecticut said that her proposed accommodation to work entirely from home was not reasonable because that accommodation would eliminate an essential job function. #IdeaoftheDay

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