yall I was in a meeting earlier today about the accommodations that had been requested by an employee. the head of HR was the one conducting the meeting and I thought I was going crazy. there were two main things that made me feel like the employee has a pretty good lawsuit against us but the head of HR said nope. to begin with the meeting was for reasonable accommodations and the head kept referring to it as an investigation which upset the employee. then the employee let them know they were having trouble processing the discussion due to their disability and were requesting an advocate for the meeting to make sure everything was converted and understood. the employee is autistic and has asked for help with communication. the head just said denied and refused to even enter into the interactive process. and on top of that the head kept trying to blame the employee saying they hadn’t disclosed when hired. they didn’t need to and it wasn’t an issue until 8 months into employment. Even if they didn’t disclose when hired we are still bound by the ADA. I personally feel like the head has opened us up to a ton of liability here. What is everyone else’s thoughts on it?!?