Offer an individualized reasonable accommodation process: What is the most direct missing control?
The missing control is individualized accommodation addressing the applicant’s disability-related barrier in an otherwise job-related screening process.
The question
For US employment screening in a logistics company, an applicant cannot complete a timed AI assessment because of a disability-related limitation. The assessment is job related, consistently administered, and otherwise monitored for disparate effects. What is the most direct missing control?
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- Offer an individualized reasonable accommodation process. ✓An individualized accommodation process addresses disability-related participation barriers while preserving the assessment’s stated job-related purpose.
- Substitute a general personality questionnaire for the assessment.A different questionnaire may lack demonstrated relevance to the job and does not itself provide reasonable accommodation.
- Use the applicant’s unadjusted assessment result.An unadjusted result may reflect the disability-related barrier rather than the job-related capability the assessment intends to measure.
- Remove all timed assessments from the hiring process.Removing every timed assessment exceeds the identified need and does not evaluate an individualized accommodation for the applicant.
The trap
Do not confuse individualized accommodation with removing a job-related assessment for every applicant. How to remember it
The missing control is individualized accommodation addressing the applicant’s disability-related barrier in an otherwise job-related screening process.
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