If you had a spinal cord injury and were ready to go back to work, would you tell your employer (or go back to work early)?

Simply use the application on line to explain that with accommodations you are able to do the job as required.
As previously stated they cannot discriminate against you due to your disability but this is not something you need to bring up in the interview.
The company is required by law to make accommodations for you in order for you to be able to work. They are minor accommodations, and if the company doesn't make them, you may then Sue based on the Americans with disability act. Don't bring it up in the interview, it's none of their business until youre hired. Then let them know what you need in order to do the job. I would make certain to get a an offer letter from the company and have it signed by the company and yourself prior to starting the job. Please send me a message if you have additional questions. I have a degree in HR management. Once again they cannot discriminate against you, but if you give them reason to, they will not hire you.

CPL Beth Allsop - can background health records effect people years later no matter if under disability or regular worker, also if someone becomes management should that person get their own health coverage . hr degree verse out in apparent normal workforce. just a query for the lady above whom posted.

Emerald S.
I'm not quite sure I fully understand the question.
But here is my best guess at what you're asking. Some companies want you to accept their insurance so much so that if you have another policy, and deny the companies offer, they will fine you. In other cases such as where I work now it is not an issue for me to have insurance under my domestic partner rather than taking the companies insurance I work for because his policy is better.

Bottom line I have been laid off before due to high insurance costs for a company. When the layoff Analysis was distributed throughout the company, we took a look at the ages and the departments of the people being laid off, and could tell that everyone being laid off had a high insurance costs. Such as a person with a car accident, a person with a liver transplant, an individual that had six children, the list went on. So yes eventually a company can decide to "lay you off" for whatever reason they deem necessary.
But you also have to look at the size of the company you're going to work for, whether or not your insurance costs can be absorbed by that company without any major hit to the companies profits etc. there are basically a lot of things that come into play. My phone number is [login to see] . I am available in the evening between 9 PM and 10:30 PM CST, I could probably explain this a whole lot clearer over the phone with the back-and-forth question and answer session. But as I said previously, there is no reason for her to tell that company that she has a disability upfront.
There is also no such thing as a medical background check, they will simply see her costs of insurance based on their policy renewal.

would an employer have to state job requirement ,and then as an employer see if those job requirements fit in with a person with a disability. some buildings have limited access for wheelchair usage which would also limit how one can move around a building thus harder for the employer to revamp their building. if you maybe required by law as noted above then employers may know that too and just not hire or word their job requirements . just trying to consider someone with spinal injury a lot of less compounding approaches to the workplace . thank you both above.

I can do that