Disability rights in the workplace - Canadian Union of Public ...

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Accommodate the existing job through work
reorganization and methods, providing assistive
devices, changing the work equipment or work
area, and/or providing additional assistance
and/or training.
Locate an alternate job within the member's
classification that can be accommodated or
requires no accommodation or bundle tasks within
the existing classification.
Locate a job within the bargaining unit that can
be accommodated or bundle tasks. Some local
unions have also bargained new jobs as part of an
accommodation program. It is important that
these jobs be meaningful and not token jobs.
Seek positions with the employer outside the
bargaining unit.
Alterations to rights set out in the collective
agreement including seniority are considered only
after all other options have been exhausted. The
duty to accommodate does not mean displacing
an existing employee to accommodate another.
The union and the employer must agree to any
changes that would affect seniority.
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