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This simple job description tweak could save your company from disability bias claims

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It may be as easy as listing the essential functions of the job.

I’ll give you an example.

A national furniture retailer hired a Warehouse Associate to unload and receive inbound furniture orders. One would assume that the job requires moving heavy objects often. But you know what you get when you assume, right?

So, the company created a one-page job description for the position. In the one-page explanation of the job, this requirement—the ability to lift up to 75 pounds unassisted—appeared twice: at the top of the bullet-point lists of “What You’ll Do” and “What You’ll Need” as a

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