Should It Be a Reasonable Accommodation?

Reasonable accommodation is one of the most nuanced areas of HR compliance. Every request is different. The law requires an individualized assessment. And the consequences of getting it wrong whether that means denying a valid request or granting one without proper documentation can be significant.

The challenge isn’t that HR professionals don’t care about getting it right. It’s that the resources to do so are usually scattered, overly legal, or too generic to be useful in the moment a real situation requires a real answer.

That’s why we built the ADA HR Compliance Toolkit — a practical, ready-to-use collection of downloads designed to walk HR professionals through the accommodation process from start to finish, with clarity and confidence.

This toolkit includes eight resources you can put to work immediately:

• ADA & FEHA Quick Reference Guide to keep the definitions, thresholds, and legal distinctions at your fingertips
• Reasonable Accommodation Decision Tree to guide your evaluation of each request step by step
• Essential Job Functions Checklist to document role requirements before accommodation decisions are made
• HR and Manager Training Materials to align your team on process, language, and legal obligations
• Interactive Process Log to document the good-faith engagement required by law
• Assistive Animal Request Form to handle one of the most frequently mishandled accommodation categories
• ADA/FEHA Compliance Self-Audit to proactively identify gaps before they become problems
• Leave of Absence Accommodation Matrix to navigate the overlap between accommodation, FMLA, and leave policies

Together, these tools help HR professionals answer the question at the center of every accommodation request:

Is this reasonable, is it required, and are we handling it correctly?

Download the ADA HR Compliance Toolkit to spend less time second-guessing and more time leading with confidence.

Content within this toolkit does not constitute legal advice.