Request and Document a Workplace Disability Accommodation

  1. Confirm your employer is covered by the ADA
    30 min

    The ADA covers private employers with 15 or more employees for each working day in 20 or more calendar weeks — in the current or the previous calendar year. Both years count, and the weeks do not need to run consecutively. Confirm the headcount three ways: your employee handbook or HR portal, a direct question to HR, or the number of W-2 forms the company issued last year. Then run the same check for state law: many states protect employees at far smaller employers, so a “no” at the federal level is not the end of the road.