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

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 provide 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

Republic of the Congo - No

Switzerland - No

Cabo Verde - No

Egypt - No

Micronesia, Federated States of - No

Equatorial Guinea - No

Guinea-Bissau - No

Iraq - No

Iran - No

St. Kitts and Nevis - No

Kazakhstan - No

Liechtenstein - No

Libya - No

Nauru - No

Oman - No

Papua New Guinea - No

Palau - No

Qatar - No

Saudi Arabia - No

Solomon Islands - No

Seychelles - No

Sudan - No

South Sudan - No

Chad - No

Togo - No

Tonga - No

St. Vincent and the Grenadines - No

Samoa - No

Yemen - No

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

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

United Arab Emirates - No, but employers are encouraged to provide reasonable accommodation

Central African Republic - No, but employers are encouraged to provide reasonable accommodation

Dominican Republic - No, but employers are encouraged to provide reasonable accommodation

Mozambique - No, but employers are encouraged to provide reasonable accommodation

The Philippines - No, but employers are encouraged to provide reasonable accommodation

Antigua and Barbuda - Yes

Angola - Yes

Australia - Yes

Azerbaijan - Yes

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Yes

Bangladesh - Yes

Burkina Faso - Yes

Benin - Yes

Brazil - Yes

Cote d'Ivoire - Yes

Chile - Yes

China - Yes

Costa Rica - Yes

Cuba - Yes

Cyprus - Yes

Czech Republic - Yes

Spain - Yes

Fiji - Yes

France - Yes

Gabon - Yes

United Kingdom - Yes

Ghana - Yes

The Gambia - Yes

Greece - Yes

Guatemala - Yes

Haiti - Yes

Indonesia - Yes

Israel - Yes

India - Yes

Italy - Yes

Jordan - Yes

Japan - Yes

Kenya - Yes

Kyrgyzstan - Yes

Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Yes

Republic of Korea - Yes

Kuwait - Yes

Laos - Yes

St. Lucia - Yes

Lithuania - Yes

Luxembourg - Yes

Latvia - Yes

Monaco - Yes

Montenegro - Yes

Madagascar - Yes

Marshall Islands - Yes

North Macedonia - Yes

Mali - Yes

Mauritania - Yes

Malta - Yes

Mexico - Yes

Niger - Yes

Nicaragua - Yes

The Netherlands - Yes

Norway - Yes

Nepal - Yes

Panama - Yes

Peru - Yes

Poland - Yes

Serbia - Yes

Russian Federation - Yes

Rwanda - Yes

Sierra Leone - Yes

San Marino - Yes

Sao Tome and Principe - Yes

El Salvador - Yes

Syria - Yes

Tajikistan - Yes

Timor-Leste - Yes

Turkmenistan - Yes

Trinidad and Tobago - Yes

Uganda - Yes

United States of America - Yes

Uzbekistan - Yes

Venezuela - Yes

South Africa - Yes

Zambia - Yes