You are an employer who wants to reinstate an employee who left work with a back injury. However, it is a small workplace and the only job that the employee can perform is one created out of all the “light duties” of the other six jobs. This would require the other employees to perform all of the heavier duties, which might lead to injury.
a. What are the employer’s duties with respect to accommodation?
b. What should you do to meet the requirements of the Ontario Human Rights Code?