Reasonable Accommodation Process Guidance

Summary

Under the ADA, employers must provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities, including mental health conditions. Document all communications and discrepancies in your performance data. Formally request a review of your performance data and consider asking for specific accommodations related to your OCD. Consult with an employment attorney for personalized advice. If you have concerns about data accuracy, request a formal review.

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Yes. Recently I was informed by my supervisor that our distract manager met with our child support program manager, who then met with my supervisor to tell me I need to immediately become in compliance with our ACD availability metric. Our ACD line is where someone presses * and gets routed to a staff member for immediate assistance. Currently, our requirement is more than *% of each shift. However, more than isn't very specific and to me, *.*% would qualify as okay. My supervisor did start meeting with everyone starting in September * and during our first meeting my percentage was pretty bad (*% roughly) and *% roughly the week we talked (though I didn't have the data at that time. I was shocked how low it was in that meeting because I was unaware it was so low and let her know I'd work to address that ASAP.
You have raised significant points regarding the accuracy of the data being used to evaluate your performance and the impact of your mental health condition on your ability to meet the ACD availability metric.
- Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers must provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities, including mental health conditions.
- You can request a more formal review of your data discrepancies.
- Document all communications and efforts to comply with the ACD metric.
Would you like more information on how to request a formal review or assistance with reasonable accommodation?
I did also highlight in that meeting that the data being used had errors in it. There were days where it said my staffed time was * hours but I had taken leave and only worked *-* hours that day. This meeting was roughly */*/* or */*/*. A few weeks later she followed up to our whole team about how she talked to our management analyst about the data and it appears off when people log in before 8am and stay logged in after 5pm. I start at *:30am and would usually log in right in the morning so I didn't forget so that explained the discrepancy. I also would sometimes take leave, either planned or usually unplanned and forget to log out, too. Either way, they knew there was issues with the data but said it was ultimately the employee's responsibility to log in and out timely to ensure the data is correct.
It sounds like you have a strong case for requesting a formal review and reasonable accommodation under the ADA. Here are some steps you can take:
- Document all communications and discrepancies.
- Formally request a review of your performance data.
- Consider asking for a more specific accommodation linked to your OCD.
- Consult with an employment attorney for personalized advice.
Would you like more information on how to formally request a performance review or assistance with reasonable accommodation?
She continued sending the information the next few months and even if I was slightly under their *% threshold, I was doing so much above and beyond for the team and department and I knew their were errors in the numbers so as long as it was close, I didn't respond most of the time. Flash forward to */* and my supervisor sets up a meeting randomly with me. We get into the meeting and she tells me our distract manager (the top boss) met with our child support program manager (my supervisor's immediate supervisor) who then met with her because they wanted to my supervisor to meet with me about getting in compliance immediately with the *% daily metric. Although I remained being professional the whole time, I was very frustrated because her and the program manager BOTH know all the extra stuff I'm doing right now to help a lot of struggling staff members on the team.
It sounds like you're dealing with a challenging situation. You have highlighted significant issues regarding data discrepancies and the impact of your OCD on your work performance. Here are some steps to consider:
- Document all communications thoroughly.
- Formally request a review of performance data.
- Request reasonable accommodations under the ADA.
- Consult with an employment attorney for personalized advice.
Would you like guidance on how to request a formal review or assistance with reasonable accommodation documentation?
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You may have a strong case for requesting reasonable accommodations and a formal review of your performance data. Under the ADA, the employer must provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities. Here are steps to consider:
- Document all communications and discrepancies.
- Formally request a review of your performance data.
- Ask for specific accommodations related to your OCD.
- Consult an employment attorney for personalized advice.
Would you like assistance on how to formally request a performance review or further guidance on reasonable accommodations?