Failure to Accommodate
When an employer refuses reasonable adjustments that would let a qualified employee perform essential job functions.
In plain terms
Failure-to-accommodate claims ask whether a workable adjustment—schedule change, equipment, leave, light duty, or reassignment to an open role—would have let you do the essential parts of the job, and whether the employer refused without proving undue hardship. Medical documentation, essential-versus-marginal duties, and whether alternatives were seriously considered usually sit at the center. These claims often travel with interactive-process and disability-discrimination theories.