In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Minnesota Human Rights Act, and the Rehabilitation Act, the MnSCU system office and colleges and universities will not discriminate in providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability in regard to job application procedures, hiring, advancement, discharge, employee compensation, job training, or other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all current employees, including student employees, employees seeking promotion, and job applicants. For purposes of this procedure, the employer is the system office, college or university.
Essential functions are the fundamental job duties of the position in question.
The term does not include the marginal functions of the position. An individual with a disability for the purposes of determining reasonable accommodations is any applicant, current employee, including student employees, or employees seeking promotion, who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially or materially limits one or more of such individual s major life activities. A qualified individual with a disability is an individual with a disability who meets the requisite skill, education, experience and other job-related requirements of the job and who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may also include those things which make a facility and its operations readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities. Assignment of Responsibility The Director of Human Resources is responsible for administering requests for reasonable accommodations for current employees, employees seeking promotion, and job applicants.