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Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 37
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 37
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Well, yes. Allowing me to "buy back" my vacation and sick time was an accommodation. And "allowing" me to not have to return to work full time after my week and 2 days I used was up, yes, that was an accommodation. And allowing me to go to my Neurologist appts 1x/month and therapy appts 1x/week was an accommodation.
Other than that I don't feel that I have been treated all that well. I don't think telling someone that they are a "liability" does much good, nor do I think that telling someone "there had better not be any mistakes - or else" is helpful in restoring confidence to that person.
The person who hit me was driving another person's car, whose insurance we have gone after. The person who hit me does not work, has no assets, and likely not much future earning potential. Same with the person who lent the car.
It would have cost me out of pocket $$ which I did not have for legal fees to go after slim to no assets. Neither of these persons owns a home.
I don't think that it's too much to ask for an employer to allow an employee - who was full time before an accident to return to FT when they are able. And at the very least, if there was some reason the employer was unable to do that, to have a talk with the employee. If there are financial problems at the company why take it out on the injured person? Everyone should have to take reduced hours.
To fight your way through an injury and be able to come back and do your job as you did - FT - and then be told you can't is just wrong.
When it's one employee who is singled out for reduced work hours, that's discriminatory. It's not like some other person was hired PT to cover and it's a case of having to let that person go. The problem is, I have handled an 8 hour a day workload pretty well in 6 hours. Now more and more work is being piled on and I am asked to do it in the same amount of time.
I agree with my atty - this guy is skating on thin ice - par for the course. Rules and regs don't have much impact where I work.
I will try the Labor Board - I have my doubts as well, but it's a start.
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