M Civ JI 106.09 Employment Discrimination Statute - Accommodation - Duty of Employer

An employer has a twofold duty to accommodate a disabled person. The first kind of accommodation is to provide access to the place of employment, in other words, the alteration of physical structures to allow access. The second kind of accommodation is one that permits the actual performance of the job duties. This can include, but is not limited to, [ the purchase of equipment and devices / hiring readers and interpreters / restructuring jobs / altering schedules for minor and infrequent duties ].

Defendant does not have a duty to provide accommodations that would impose an undue hardship.

Comment

MCL 37.1210; Rourk v Oakwood Hospital Corporation, 458 Mich 25 (1998).

History

Added September 2005.