Assess an equivalent accommodation for the essential: employment law?
Evaluate an equivalent accommodation that preserves the essential communication measure while addressing the unnecessary timing barrier.
The question
A U.S. retailer uses AI screening to hire demand planners. An applicant with a disability requests an alternative to a timed video task; the task measures communication, while the role permits extended response time. What evidence should HR obtain before deciding under covered U.S. employment law?
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- Reject the request because every applicant used the taskUniform use of a procedure does not answer whether a disability-related accommodation can preserve assessment of essential job criteria.
- Use the applicant’s prior employer rating insteadA prior rating may provide information but does not necessarily measure the same essential criterion under comparable screening conditions.
- Remove the communication criterion from screeningRemoving an essential criterion changes the selection requirement rather than evaluating an accommodation that measures it appropriately.
- Assess an equivalent accommodation for the essential criterion ✓The key evidence is whether an alternative method measures the essential communication criterion without imposing the unnecessary timed barrier.
The trap
Separate essential job criteria from potentially modifiable testing conditions. How to remember it
Evaluate an equivalent accommodation that preserves the essential communication measure while addressing the unnecessary timing barrier.
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