{"id":3393,"date":"2018-04-30T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:27:28","slug":"what-steps-can-employers-take-to-ensure-compliance-with-the-americans-with-disabilities-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/what-steps-can-employers-take-to-ensure-compliance-with-the-americans-with-disabilities-act.html","title":{"rendered":"What Steps Can Employers Take to Ensure Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to other federal anti-discrimination laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) expressly prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of disability. The ADA, however, is unique in that it requires an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation to its disabled employees.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, it is up to the employee to request an accommodation for his or her disability. In order to do so, the employee may verbally advise that he or she needs an adjustment, change, or assistance at work and that this need is related to a disability. In spite of this formality, there are other ways an employer may become obligated to provide an accommodation even in the absence of a formal request. For that reason, employers should learn to identify specific circumstances in which an employee may require an accommodation. For example, if the employer knows of the employee\u2019s disability, sees the employee struggling to access existing facilities or notices that the disability itself prevents the employee from requesting the accommodation, the employer should initiate a conversation with the employee to determine whether an accommodation is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Once an employee has requested an accommodation or the employer has identified its obligation to provide an accommodation, the employer should strive to diligently address the need of an accommodation by way of clear and constant communication. This form of communication is referred to as the \u201cinteractive process\u201d under the ADA. The interactive process and is an informal practice in which the covered individual and the employer determine the precise limitations created by the disability and how best to respond to the need for accommodation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/what-steps-can-employers-take-to-ensure-compliance-with-the-americans-with-disabilities-act.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading What Steps Can Employers Take to Ensure Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to other federal anti-discrimination laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) expressly prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of disability. The ADA, however, is unique in that it requires an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation to its disabled employees. Ordinarily, it is up to the employee to request an accommodation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247,291],"tags":[],"coauthors":[296],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights","category-gingeleskie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Steps Can Employers Take to Ensure Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act? &#8212; April 30, 2018 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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