Finding a reasonable 'reasonable accommodation"

Federal Times: The Office of Personnel Management earlier this fall announced that nearly one out of five of the 104,435 employees hired in fiscal year 2014 had a disability. This robust rate of hiring helped the ranks of disabled employees in the federal service climb to 247,600 — a 34-year high.

The Obama administration spurred this growth through its 2010 issuance of Executive Order 13548 on Increasing Federal Employment of Individuals with Disabilities. And while agencies have helped many of these disabled workers join the federal service by providing them with reasonable accommodations so they can perform the essential functions of their jobs, more will need to be done to support this workforce. For many, the reasonable accommodations which an agency agreed to provide may prove to be ineffective.

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