Am in public sector and recently had to attend occupational health doctor because I have a hidden disability and need to work remotely or else would have had to leave job.
The function of the Occ Health doctor in this case to report to HR on whether your condition and circumstances support your request to work solely from home. In doing so, it’s probably reasonable that some explanation of the reasons for his recommendation are included in his report. The level of detail he should be going into is a matter for debate but reference to your other medication might be appropriate if it ultimately supports your application to work from home.
It is not reasonable really. Sure you can probably get a rogue doctor to say anything you like and send a letter to your company supporting you to wfh as a medical accommodation. Any reasonable company will ask the employee to go along to a company doctor (normally in a firm specialising in workplace health). They have an appointment with you and do their own assessment, read your letters from doctors etc. they may ask to correspond with your gp for more info, (which any reasonable employee will give) and then they write to the employer either agreeing or disagreeing with the request for WFH.This seems reasonable to me.
I am sure that if I wanted to work from home, I could find a doctor to say "Brendan has a condition, which we are not going to disclose to you, but as a result, he should work from home indefinitely."
Pity the poor employers who will now have to allow everyone to work from home and who will probably be sued for having software which tracks the activity of the employee while they are working from home.
Brendan
Yeah, in the past long before WFH was common we had a case where the person's doctor provided a certificate that they needed to work remotely due to mobility issues around the same time they were posting to social media of their marathon exploits.It is not reasonable really. Sure you can probably get a rogue doctor to say anything you like and send a letter to your company supporting you to wfh as a medical accommodation. Any reasonable company will ask the employee to go along to a company doctor (normally in a firm specialising in workplace health).
They won't be sued for having software that tracks the employee keystrokes etc, that exists in many offices also. What will happen over the next 10 years is staff suing their employer because they worked from home on a permanent/semi perm basis and their employer did not carry out an ergonomic assessment or provide the right equipment/furniture.This seems reasonable to me.
I am sure that if I wanted to work from home, I could find a doctor to say "Brendan has a condition, which we are not going to disclose to you, but as a result, he should work from home indefinitely."
Pity the poor employers who will now have to allow everyone to work from home and who will probably be sued for having software which tracks the activity of the employee while they are working from home.
Brendan
The employer can require you to go to a suitably qualified doctor that they select for a second opinion. Anyway, sure aren't all doctors above that sort of thing?This seems reasonable to me.
I am sure that if I wanted to work from home, I could find a doctor to say "Brendan has a condition, which we are not going to disclose to you, but as a result, he should work from home indefinitely."
Pity the poor employers who will now have to allow everyone to work from home and who will probably be sued for having software which tracks the activity of the employee while they are working from home.
Brendan
It’s important to determine if there was a breach of GDPR, as the unauthorized sharing of your medical information could be considered unlawful. The occupational health doctor should have only disclosed information necessary for making workplace adjustments, and not the details of your medication if they were irrelevant to your condition or work capacity. The fact that this information was shared with HR without your consent is concerning, especially since you work within HR and know the individuals involved, which adds to your distress.Am in public sector and recently had to attend occupational health doctor because I have a hidden disability and need to work remotely or else would have had to leave job. I was upset to discover that he has revealed details to HR without my consent , including medication I am taking (meds which are totally irrelevant to my condition). I work in a section of HR myself and know the people in HR who now know my medical details so it is very distressing. One of them is a very gossipy person so I hate that he knows this information. Surely he could have made a recommendation ( backed up by my consultant ) without putting these details on file.
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