Lauren Weber
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740 appearances
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first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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bought the software needed to allow people to do video calls, et cetera, from home.
And so it became an accommodation that was much more available to people.
Workers have shown I can do my work remotely.
So there's a lot of frustration when an employer calls people back to work and then a worker feels that this is not the right environment for me.
Exactly.
Obviously not for all jobs.
Plenty of jobs were still being done in person, but most office workers were required by their employers to work from home.
There were lockdowns.
There were many people who were able to work successfully from home, and many people feel they were even more productive at home.
Because of privacy rules, employers can't ask specific questions about a diagnosis or about someone's condition, but they can ask for documentation about the limitations.
So that's what I heard from a lot of lawyers is you have to focus on the limitations.
So many people can have a psychiatrist or a doctor send in information about what a person's limitations are and what they recommend as accommodations.
By law, employers are required to go through this interactive process.
So they can't just say, no, I refuse, or they can't fire someone just for asking.
That could lead to a charge of discrimination right off the bat.
Again, it's meant to be a negotiation.
One person shouldn't be dictating the answer here.
There is a common response of skepticism to these accommodation requests.
And I spoke to management side lawyers who think, well, you know, come on, you may be happier working from home, but that doesn't mean that you have to work from home because you're anxious or depressed or something.
But the fact is a lot of people do suffer from conditions and many either suffered silently or asked for accommodations and were told, no, that's an undue burden on the employer and therefore we're going to reject that remote work request.
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