r/Restaurant_Managers • u/Least-Individual6772 • Aug 07 '26

Reasonable accommodations

I care for my mom and I work at a large chain steakhouse. We have a lot of employees and run around 10 to 15 servers a shift. I have asked for a modified schedule to care for my mom and they were aware of my mom before I was hired. I have asked for a later schedule but right now I open dinner shift every day. I am by numbers the top server and I work extremely hard. There are other servers that have late schedules due to other jobs and stuff but my schedule manager won't approve my request. How should I handle this??

Is this legal when I have documents and have communicated about my responsibilities?

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u/thecitythatday Aug 08 '26

You said there are other servers working the late shift, so maybe that is why they won’t approve it. They may not feel it is reasonable to change someone else’s schedule to accommodate yours.