"Qualified Individual" Defined
Disability discrimination laws don’t protect individuals unless they’re “qualified” individuals.
A “qualified” individual meets the legitimate skill, experience, education or other job-related requirements of an employment position that the person holds or seeks, and the individual can perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Individuals are not unqualified because they’re unable to perform marginal or incidental job functions.1
If the individual is qualified to perform essential job functions except for limitations
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