Both New Jersey and federal law require employers to provide “reasonable” accommodations to an employee to allow that employee to work with some type of disability, whether mental or physical. Examples of reasonable accommodations may include time off for treatments of a disease, or provision of wheelchair-accessible facilities. Importantly, employers are only required to provide reasonable accommodations once they become aware of the employee’s disability and the employee requests accommodation. In addition, not all accommodations are considered “reasonable” – for example, employers are not required to implement accommodations that would cause the employer undue hardship or in cases where the employee could not substantially fulfill the job duties with the accommodations requested. So, an employer’s refusal to provide some sort of accommodation will not automatically give rise to a cause of action.