The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee or job applicant with a disability, unless doing so would create an undue hardship, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
As the 11th Circuit noted in Kassa, "an employer's failure to provide a reasonable accommodation is itself a violation of the ADA," noting that this explains in part why the employer was not eligible for summary judgment on the plaintiff's accommodation claim.
Other federal courts have ruled that breaks are not a reasonable accommodation in certain scenarios, however. In a July 2018 ruling, for example, the 6th Circuit ruled that a receptionist with a genetic disorder who requested an extended lunch break to exercise failed to demonstrate that the requested accommodation was necessary.
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