Job Accommodation Network

Reasonable Accommodation: Free Advice to Employers

By Debra Reilly on October 5, 2009

Are you an employer who has ever wondered how you can possibly accommodate a particular disability of an employee? The disability is just so severe or unusual (or a "mental disability" is involved) that you can think of no way to accommodate it. Never fear–at least not yet. Try calling the Job Accommodation Network…

Throughout her 30-year legal career, Debra L. Reilly has conducted over 900 internal workplace investigations for various counties, municipalities (including police departments and fire departments), water districts, sanitation districts, transportation authorities, public and private elementary schools (K-12), private and public colleges and universities, the United States Postal Service (holding a “sensitive” security clearance by the Postal Inspector’s Office), and a multitude of private sector employers . Debra has conducted employment investigations throughout the United States and California. She has testified in depositions, arbitrations, and trial concerning the findings of her investigations. Given her legal training and litigation experience representing both management and employees, Ms. Reilly’s investigations are impartial, objective, and thorough. Ms. Reilly has also testified as an expert witness in Human Resources standard practices in conducting harassment and discrimination investigations, as well as Human Resources standard practices in conducting reasonable accommodation assessments of disabled employees and engaging in the interactive process.