Employee Requests an Accommodation

Employee Requests an Accommodation Making sure managers and employees know what kind of information is needed to assess a requested accommodation can save time and indicate the employer’s good-faith participation in a discussion of the request. Supervisors shouldn’t assume they know the best solution or know what the employee needs or wants. Instead, the first step for supervisors to take when an employee asks, or indicates the need for, an accommodation is to request information from the employee. At this stage, an accommodation request form guides employees in providing the information needed to proceed with the interactive process. The form requests a description of the limitation and how it affects their ability to perform one or more essential job functions. It also requests their suggestions for accommodation that would allow them to perform the functions.