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Time off as reasonable accommodation under the ADA – the obligation to show up
Under disability discrimination law, disabled plaintiffs have sometimes asserted a right to be absent from work, maintaining that it is a reasonable accommodation for their disability.
The ADAAA did not change the language governing reasonable accommodation. Although the following cases do not deal with occupationally-caused disabilities, the arguments regarding time off would be the same:
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