{"id":569,"date":"2017-07-11T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/?page_id=569"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:46:45","slug":"what-is-an-accommodation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/the-accessibility-for-manitobans-act\/accessible-employment\/what-is-an-accommodation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an Accommodation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some of us, workplace accommodations may be unchartered territory.\u00a0 Nevertheless, we must help those who encounter a barrier\u00a0 in the workplace which prevents them from performing some of their duties.\u00a0 As we work to educate ourselves through various AMA training and workshops offered at Brandon University, we will become more familiar with workplace accommodations.\u00a0 The Manitoba Human Rights Commission has created a quick reference guide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/files\/MHRC-Reasonable-Accommodation-in-the-Workplace-guide.pdf\">Reasonable Accommodation in the Workplace<\/a>.\u00a0 This valuable tool helps to explain everyone&#8217;s role in the accommodation process.<\/p>\n<p>As you work to\u00a0understand\u00a0what are\u00a0essential job\u00a0requirements,\u00a0how to\u00a0identify\u00a0workplace barriers,\u00a0 and how to ensure a request constitutes a workplace accommodation,\u00a0 we have a resource for you.\u00a0\u00a0A quick reference, known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/files\/decision-tree.pdf\">Accommodation Decision Tree<\/a>, was created by Barbara L. Roberts (2006).\u00a0 This resource helps both employees and\u00a0supervisors assess situations\u00a0to determine when an accommodation may or may not be the solution.<\/p>\n<p>As always, contact <a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#108;&#116;o:&#x68;&#x72;&#x40;&#98;&#114;an&#x64;&#x6f;&#x6e;&#117;&#46;ca\">Human Resources<\/a> with any of your workplace accommodation-related questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some of us, workplace accommodations may be unchartered territory.\u00a0 Nevertheless, we must help those who encounter a barrier\u00a0 in the workplace which prevents them from performing some of their duties.\u00a0 As we work to educate ourselves through various AMA training and workshops offered at Brandon University, we will become more familiar with workplace accommodations.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":616,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions\/719"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/ama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}