ECONOMICS

Detailed explanation-1: -Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, employers who have 15 or more employees are usually required to provide reasonable accommodations. Some state and local laws may require that employers with fewer employees provide reasonable accommodations.

Detailed explanation-2: -The duty to accommodate obliges the employer to make reasonable efforts to alter the workplace so that it is more suitable for the employee’s needs in relation to their disability, thus allowing the employee to properly carry out their work duties. This duty stops short of the employer experiencing undue hardship.

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of Reasonable Accommodations Acquiring or modifying equipment or devices such as adjusting a desk height to accommodate an employee who uses a wheelchair or providing an employee with quadriplegia a mouth stick device to type on their computer.