Are employers required to guarantee reasonable accommodation to workers with disabilities? - WORLD Policy Analysis Center

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Are employers required to guarantee reasonable accommodation to workers with disabilities?

Map reflects policies in place as of May 2018.

Reasonable accommodation as measured here, corresponds with the definition of reasonable accommodation outlined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, namely: “necessary and appropriate modifications and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms”

No means that legislation does not require employers to guarantee reasonable accommodation to individual workers with disabilities. This does not mean that legislation prohibits the extension of accommodations to employees.

No, but provision of reasonable accommodation is not considered discrimination means that legislation does not require employers to provide reasonable accommodation to workers with disabilities, but makes clear that taking affirmative steps to provide accommodations to workers is not a form of discrimination

No, but employers are encouraged to extend reasonable accommodation means that legislation does not require employers to provide reasonable accommodation to workers with disabilities, but legislation encourages provision, e.g. by stating that “employers should promote adoption of appropriate measures” or outlining that the State should provide support for employer provision of reasonable accommodations

Yes means that legislation explicitly requires that employers provide workers with disabilities reasonable accommodations.

Countries

Afghanistan - No

Papua New Guinea - No

Palau - No

Oman - No

Nauru - No

Micronesia, Federated States of - No

Mali - No

The Philippines - No

Liechtenstein - No

Libya - No

Kazakhstan - No

Iraq - No

Iran - No

Guinea-Bissau - No

Qatar - No

Yemen - No

Tonga - No

Togo - No

Switzerland - No

Sudan - No

Samoa - No

St. Vincent and the Grenadines - No

St. Kitts and Nevis - No

South Sudan - No

Solomon Islands - No

Sierra Leone - No

Seychelles - No

Saudi Arabia - No

Sao Tome and Principe - No

San Marino - No

The Gambia - No

Cote d'Ivoire - No

Republic of the Congo - No

Democratic Republic of the Congo - No

Chad - No

Cabo Verde - No

El Salvador - No

Antigua and Barbuda - No

Egypt - No

Equatorial Guinea - No

Zimbabwe - No, but provisions of reasonable accommodation is not considered discrimination

New Zealand - No, but provisions of reasonable accommodation is not considered discrimination

Mozambique - No, but employers encouraged to provide

Angola - No, but employers encouraged to provide

Central African Republic - No, but employers encouraged to provide

Dominican Republic - No, but employers encouraged to provide

United Arab Emirates - No, but employers encouraged to provide

St. Lucia - Yes

Benin - Yes

Spain - Yes

Fiji - Yes

South Africa - Yes

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Yes

Haiti - Yes

Brazil - Yes

Serbia - Yes

Burkina Faso - Yes

Sweden - Yes

Guatemala - Yes

Turkmenistan - Yes

Zambia - Yes

Ghana - Yes

Greece - Yes

Uzbekistan - Yes

Gabon - Yes

United States of America - Yes

United Kingdom - Yes

Uganda - Yes

Turkey - Yes

Bangladesh - Yes

Australia - Yes

Trinidad and Tobago - Yes

Azerbaijan - Yes

Timor-Leste - Yes

Tajikistan - Yes

Syria - Yes

France - Yes

Rwanda - Yes

Jordan - Yes

Russian Federation - Yes

Israel - Yes

Marshall Islands - Yes

Malta - Yes

Cuba - Yes

Cyprus - Yes

Czech Republic - Yes

Madagascar - Yes

North Macedonia - Yes

Luxembourg - Yes

Lithuania - Yes

Italy - Yes

Latvia - Yes

Laos - Yes

Kyrgyzstan - Yes

Kuwait - Yes

Republic of Korea - Yes

Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Yes

Kenya - Yes

Mauritania - Yes

Mexico - Yes

Norway - Yes

Canada - Yes

Japan - Yes

Poland - Yes

Peru - Yes

India - Yes

Panama - Yes

Chile - Yes

China - Yes

Indonesia - Yes

Niger - Yes

Nicaragua - Yes

The Netherlands - Yes

Nepal - Yes

Montenegro - Yes

Costa Rica - Yes

Monaco - Yes