Provides that employers with 15 or more employees must provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees or applicants with disabilities, unless such an accommodation would be an undue hardship.
The cost of an accommodation and the availability of alternate accommodations are factors in determining if an accommodation would be an undue hardship.
Courts cannot award damages against employers who can show that they have made good faith efforts to accommodate a qualified individual with a disability, including consultation with that individual and efforts to provide an equally effective opportunity for that individual.
