What disabilities need to be reasonably accommodated?
An employer must make reasonable accommodation for an impairment that substantially limits an employee’s ability to do his or her job, to be considered for a job, or to have access to equal terms and conditions of the job. An employer must also make reasonable accommodation for a condition that will likely result in a substantially limiting impairment if the condition is not reasonably accommodated. The 2007 legislation states: (d) Only for the purposes of qualifying for reasonable accommodation in employment, an impairment must be known or shown through an interactive process to exist in fact and: (i) The impairment must have a substantially limiting effect upon the individual’s ability to perform his or her job, the individual’s ability to apply or be considered for a job, or the individual’s access to equal benefits, privileges, or terms or conditions of employment; or (ii) The employee must have put the employer on notice of the existence of an impairment, and medical documentation
