An employee's fundamental duties outlined in the official position description or defined by the supervisor. An employee who must be absent from work to receive medical treatment for a serious health condition is considered to be unable to perform the essential functions of the position during the absence for treatment.
are one or more of the core responsibilities of a position. For example: a receptionist who cannot speak, cannot perform one of the core responsibilities of his position, and is therefore defined as "disabled," even if the condition is temporary. However, if the same receptionist could not move heavy furniture, he would not be disabled, because moving heavy furniture is not an essential function of this position.
The fundamental job duties of a position
Duties considered crucial to the job you want or have. When being considered for alternative work, you must have both the physical and mental qualifications to fulfill the job's essential functions.
Those duties defined in the job description which are required to be performed. Changing these duties would change the job.
The primary job functions or tasks that an individual must be able to perform with or without a reasonable accommodation.
The primary tasks performed in a job.
Essential functions are the reason a position exists; those duties and tasks that are fundamental to the position.
Fundamental job duties that one must be able to perform with or without a reasonable accommodation.The term essential functions does not include marginal functions of the position.
The major tasks that must be accomplished on a specific job. They are tasks that, if performed incorrectly or omitted by the individual, will result in failure to attain the basic purpose of the job. Other factors to consider are the amount of time a satisfactory individual normally spends performing the function, whether the function is uniformly performed by incumbents, the past experience of job holders, the degree of skills and abilities needed to perform the function (see 222). Essential functions may vary from one installation to another for specific jobs with the same job title and occupation code.