Please give a thorough case study.

Ch. 15 Workplace Law

The director of the health information management department has the opportunity to hire a new medical coder who, based on an exam the medical coder candidate completed, has excellent coding skills. However, the director learns that the prospective employee is deaf. The medical coder communicates using sign language and at times has an interpreter with her. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 provides that disabled employees must be able to perform the necessary functions of a job with "reasonable accommodations."

1) Discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act and what an employer must be aware of in order to be in compliance.

2)Based on what you know of the law, would you hire the medical coder?

3)If the medical coder asked that an interpreter be available, do you think that is a reasonable accommodation and if not, why not?

4) What other workplace laws might be relevant in this case? Justify your answer.