{"id":16026,"date":"2021-11-09T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:04:07","slug":"providing-reasonable-accommodations-for-employees-with-disabilities-and-working-with-pregnant-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=16026","title":{"rendered":"Providing Reasonable Accommodations for Employees with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Employees with disabilities,&nbsp;who&nbsp;would like to request accommodations in&nbsp;their work environment,&nbsp;have a great resource in the Office of Employee Relations&nbsp;(OER).&nbsp;Academic Specialist,&nbsp;Dr. Julie DeGraw (<a href=\"mailto:degrawju@msu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">degrawju@msu.edu<\/a>),&nbsp;leads and coordinates the accommodation process. The accommodation process&nbsp;empowers units and&nbsp;employees with disabilities to do their best work by&nbsp;establishing&nbsp;timely and reasonable accommodation plans&nbsp;that follow&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/civilrights.msu.edu\/ada_coordinator\/disability_and_reasonable_accommodation_policy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan State University Disability and Reasonable Accommodation Policy<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees begin the process by&nbsp;registering with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/login.msu.edu\/?App=RCPD_Profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Resource Center for Persons with&nbsp;Disabilities<\/a>&nbsp;(RCPD).&nbsp;Once RCPD determines&nbsp;that&nbsp;the employee fits the criteria of having a disability, they will be referred to&nbsp;OER\/Dr. DeGraw to complete the interactive process.&nbsp;Dr. DeGraw will meet with both the employee and the supervisor\/unit to&nbsp;review and&nbsp;gather input&nbsp;about&nbsp;the&nbsp;employee\u2019s&nbsp;essential duties and the requested accommodations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The employee, or OER on behalf of the employee,&nbsp;may ask units for temporary accommodations&nbsp;until the accommodations process is complete.&nbsp;These&nbsp;temporary accommodations&nbsp;are only in place while the employee is going through the process and&nbsp;may&nbsp;not be approved beyond a temporary time frame.\u202fIf the unit has any questions or concerns about providing such a temporary accommodation, it should contact OER\/Dr. DeGraw.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can review some possible assistive technology available related to various disabilities by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcpd.msu.edu\/programs\/assistive-technology\">Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities Assistive Technology page<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please let us know if the Office of Employee Relations (<a href=\"mailto:HR.ER@msu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HR.ER@msu.edu<\/a>) can help in any way to support you and your employees.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees with disabilities,&nbsp;who&nbsp;would like to request accommodations in&nbsp;their work environment,&nbsp;have a great resource in the Office of Employee Relations&nbsp;(OER).&nbsp;Academic Specialist,&nbsp;Dr. Julie DeGraw (degrawju@msu.edu),&nbsp;leads and coordinates the accommodation process. The accommodation process&nbsp;empowers units and&nbsp;employees with disabilities&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=16026\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span> Providing Reasonable Accommodations for Employees with Disabilities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[518,657,514,656,658,659,90],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/linkedin-sales-solutions-W3Jl3jREpDY-unsplash-01.jpg?fit=2500%2C1147&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb1fcA-4au","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17324,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions\/17324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}