The Mental Health Provider's Role in a Client's Request for a Reasonable Accommodation at Work

4. What Kind of Reasonable Accommodation Could My Client Get?

If your client has a disability, the employer is legally required to provide a reasonable accommodation that would help your client do the job. If more than one accommodation would work, the employer may choose which one to provide. However, an employer cannot be required to provide an accommodation that is simply unreasonable on its face (that is, not plausible or feasible), or that would cause significant financial or operational difficulty. It also never has to excuse a failure to meet production standards or rules of conduct that are both necessary for the operation of the business and applied equally to all employees, or to retain an individual who cannot do the job even with a reasonable accommodation.