NOTICE TO APPLICANTS OF ACCOMMODATIONS IN EMPLOYMENT PROCESS
AND IN PERFORMANCE OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Per the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), if you have a disability, our organization is required to provide you with reasonable accommodations for these purposes:
- to ensure you can apply for employment; and
- to enable a qualified individual with a disability to perform essential job functions.
In the employment process, reasonable accommodation is any modification or adjustment to the employment process that makes it possible for you to apply for employment. In job performance, reasonable accommodation is any modification or adjustment to the job, the work environment, or the way things are usually done that makes it possible for a qualified person with a disability to perform a job.
If you believe that you need such an accommodation, please tell your interviewer. You may indicate the type of accommodation you feel would be effective. For certain types of accommodations to permit you to apply for employment (such as providing a reader or interpreter), we will need reasonable advance notice.
By law, unless you request reasonable accommodation or you have an obvious disability which we reasonably believe requires reasonable accommodation, we are not permitted to ask you if you need an accommodation.
Accommodations must be made only when they do not pose an undue hardship for the employer. It is up to the employer to decide which accommodation will be made. We will consider your suggestions concerning the accommodations which would be most effective. However, we reserve the right (as the Americans With Disabilities Act permits us to do) to choose the accommodation which we believe will best serve both your needs and the organization’s needs.
If you have any questions about these matters, please feel free to discuss them with your interviewer or our Employment Manager in our Human Resources Department.
ADA EMPLOYMENT COMPLAINT PROCEDURE
As stated above, our organization complies with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This means that if you have a disability, we will not discriminate against you due to your disability as we consider your qualifications for employment. Also, upon your request, if your disability requires reasonable accommodation, we will provide reasonable accommodation to - permit you to complete our application process, and
- permit you to perform essential job functions so long as the reasonable accommodation does not pose an undue hardship for our organization.
If you feel you have been discriminated against in any way because of your disability, please contact this representative of our organization as soon as possible:
Madonna Flanders
Employment Manager
(207) 947-0366, ext. 196
Community Health and Counseling Services
P.O. Box 425
Bangor, ME 04401
You can be certain that no action unfavorable to you will be taken as a result of expressing your concern. Your feedback will help us ensure that our actions are consistent with our policies. Thank you for your cooperation.
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