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Sunrise Technologies, a private manufacturing firm with 680 employees, posts a vacancy for a Safety Compliance Officer. The job requires standing for long periods, occasional lifting up to 40 pounds, and occasional travel to sites. Lana, 34, uses a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury, applies for the position and is interviewed. During the interview, HR emphasizes that the role requires standing and lifting and states that accommodating her disability would be costly and impractical. The firm declines to hire Lana and refuses any accommodation. Lana sues under RA 7277. Which statement best captures the central doctrine governing RA 7277 and the controlling standard for evaluating employment discrimination against persons with disabilities, and applies to the facts: has Sunrise Technologies discriminated against Lana? What remedies are available?

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Sunrise Technologies discriminated; RA 7277 imposes a duty of reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities and bars discrimination in hiring; the controlling standard is whether the employer can provide reasonable accommodation for the essential functions without undue hardship; remedies include reinstatement, back wages from the date of discriminatory act, actual damages and attorney’s fees, and an order to implement reasonable accommodations going forward. Sunrise Technologies did not discriminate because the job’s essential functions include standing and lifting; a wheelchair user cannot perform those tasks even with accommodation; the remedy would be reallocation to a vacancy that fits. The central standard for evaluating discrimination is that the disability alone determines outcomes rather than performance; the remedy is only injunctive relief. The undue hardship defense can never be used by an employer; if accommodation would impose any burden, it is automatically illegal; the remedy is to hire the applicant anyway.

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