Fired for Needing Sleep? Trainee Wins Settlement in Investment Bank Dispute Over Job Accommodation Request

A sleep specialist says the employee was within her rights to set boundaries with her company, and warns other employers to take notice.

BY KAYLA WEBSTER, STAFF EDITOR

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A lack of sleep will cost you at work, since fatigue makes it hard to concentrate and focus on the job. A shuteye deficit is also costing a New York investment bank that fired a trainee banker for telling managers she needed eight to nine hours of sleep every night due to a medical condition—rehashing a debate over........

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