The Department of Labor's latest FMLA enforcement report found that most complaints resulted from an employer refusing to reinstate an employee to the same or equivalent job after taking time off. Ninety percent of complaints were successfully resolved with the employers' agreement to comply with the law, usually with a simple call. Businesses learn that they too profit by giving workers this priceless benefit. A disabled person is broadly defined as a person whom is substantially limited in one or more major life activities such as walking or seeing. Pursuant to the ADA, employers need to make a reasonable accommodation for a person with a disability.
Reasonable accommodation is defined differently depending on the size of the company.
Large companies are required to make greater efforts to accommodate the disabled while smaller businesses can make less substantial efforts to accommodate the disabled.