Accommodation mandates

The history of employment law has witnessed a move from mandates directed t o workers as a whole, such as workers' compensation, to mandates directed t o particular, identifiable groups of workers, such as the reasonable accomm odation mandate of the Americans with Disabilities Act. These newer "accomm odation mandates" are ordinarily analyzed using an economic framework devel oped for mandates directed to workers as a whole. However, this framework y ields misleading and incorrect conclusions when applied to accommodation ma ndates. This Article offers a new framework for analyzing accommodation man dates. The framework generates testable predictions about the effects of th ese mandates-predictions that are largely confirmed by the existing empiric al evidence.