An accounting firm has just contacted your consulting business for
assistance. They want to hire someone to do accounting and payroll. The
bookstore is downstairs, while the office is upstairs in an older
building. The essential functions of the job include operating a
computer, maintaining a ledger, providing the owner with financial
statements, completing tax returns, paying bills and employees, and
balancing the bank statements. The desk for this is at the top of a
flight of 24 steps. There is no elevator and the building is too old to
be ADA compliant. The firm is struggling financially, but hopes to
increase sales as a new coffee shop just opened next door. The most
qualified applicant to their advertisement has just come into the
bookstore in a wheelchair.
Choose a delivery style of delivering your recommendations to the
accounting firm. Be sure to discuss whether this candidate is capable of
performing the essential functions of this job from a wheelchair.
Analyze and critically discuss the issue of reasonable accommodation.
What does the law say? Could the employer make a reasonable
accommodation here to hire the best candidate for this job? How could
they do that considering their tight finances?
Find a court case on ADA that has reached a verdict, how did the court case interpret the law as written?
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