Much has changed in the world of work since the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990. Among those changes are the widespread ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a huge increase in remote work and higher numbers of U.S. workers diagnosed with conditions like diabetes, obesity, autism , breast cancer and skin cancer.
All of that can impact compliance with the ADA, which requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities, unless the employer can prove that this would cause undue hardship. This National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which is observed every October, employers might become more familiar with common conditions requiring accommodations, including long COVID-19, as well as typical accommodations workers may ask for or be provided.
Common Conditions
Recently, common conditions requiring workplace accommodations have included chronic back pain, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, migraines, heart disease, diabetes, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis, deafness and blindness.
Back pain "has always been the No. 1 condition," said David Fram, director of ADA services for the National Employment Law Institute in Golden, Colo. "But now I'm hearing a lot of anxiety issues, and I do think it revolves around workplaces reopening."
"I think we are seeing far more employees requesting reasonable accommodations for mental, emotional or psychiatric conditions than we have in the past...
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