Texas Disability Law - Reasonable Accommodation

Texas Law

• Provides that employers with 15 or more employees must provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees or applicants with disabilities, unless such an accommodation would be an undue hardship.
• The cost of an accommodation and the availability of alternate accommodations are factors in determining if an accommodation would be an undue hardship.
• Courts can not award damages against employers who can show that they have made good faith efforts to accommodate a qualified individual with a disability, including consultation with that individual and efforts to provide an equally effective opportunity for that individual.

Texas Legal Citation

• Texas Labor Code, Section 21.128

Contact

• Texas Workforce
  (800) 735-2988, (800)735-2989 (TDD)
  

For More Information

• Job Accommodation Network
  (800) 526-7234, (877) 781-9403 (TTY)
  

Relevant Federal Laws

• Americans with Disabilities Act:
  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  (800) 669-4000; (800) 669-6820 (TTY)
  

• EEOC Reasonable Accommodation Guidance
  

  EEOC Pre-employment Guidance
  

  EEOC Psychiatric Disabilities Guidance