M Civ JI 106.11D Employment Discrimination Statute - Accommodation - Undue Hardship - Readers or Interpreters

An undue hardship is defined by statute. In this case, because [ defendant employs fewer than four employees / defendant employs four or more but less than 15 employees ], if the cost to [ hire / retain ] the [ reader / interpreter ] to accommodate the plaintiff is more than [ seven times the state average weekly wage for the first year the person with a disability is hired, transferred, or promoted to the job and five times the state average weekly wage for each year thereafter / 10 times the state average weekly wage for the first year the person with a disability is hired, transferred, or promoted to the job and seven times the state average weekly wage for each year thereafter ], that accommodation imposes an undue hardship. If it is less than or equal to that amount, the accommodation does not impose an undue hardship.

Comment

MCL 37.1210(8), (9).

History

Added September 2005.