Margaret D. Conneen v. Mbna America Bank, N.A

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• emphasizing that “circumstances must at least be sufficient to cause a reasonable employer to make appropriate inquiries about the possible need for an accommodation”
• noting that no formal request for accommodation need be made to trigger the interactive process, but the employer must be made aware of the employee’s disability and the desire for an accommodation
• finding that employer bank made good faith effort to engage in interactive process with employee who demonstrated excessive tardiness; the breakdown of the interactive process was due to the plaintiff employee’s conduct
• finding the need for a manager to set a good example was not sufficient to prove punctuality is an essential function
• finding employee did not request accommodation where employee, after repeated warnings and chances to explain her tardiness to work, “refrained from suggesting a link between her medication and her tardiness” but instead cited non-medical reasons
• “[C]ircumstances must at least be sufficient to cause a reasonable employer to make appropriate inquiries about the possible need for an accommodation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).