Employers and unions both have a role to play in accommodating an employee. But what of the employee’s duty? Employees commonly reject accommodation proposals on the basis that it’s not what they want or that there is another accommodation that they would prefer. It goes without saying that the accommodation process should be underscored by flexibility, however, when the employer has made an arrangement for an accommodation that reasonably meets the employee’s needs the employee has an obligation to accept that accommodation.

See Anderson v. Alberta, 2004 ABQB 766, for a recent application of this principle.