An employer is not required to provide an employee who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder with a new supervisor as a reasonable accommodation, the Washington Supreme Court held in 2002, basing its decision on the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case, in which an employee, who claimed that her supervisor’s outrageous and confrontational behavior caused flare-ups of stress related to her disorder, requested to be paired with another supervisor, illustrates that while the Americans with Disabilities Act provides that employers must offer reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities, a reasonable accommodation is not necessarily the accommodation requested by […]