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Do you share your medical information with your boss?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Sep 15 7:29pm | Replies (12)Comment receiving replies
I am in this situation myself . Was great to see this raised. Yours is an excellent overview including your closing comments. These are very complex situations. For example, how much time off does the employee have per their employment status such as sick days, vacation days, flex time or the like. Within that, how much flexibility does the employee have such as when they can take vacation days or flex days. Your comment: "as long as you can do your job and do not need an accommodation from your employer to do the job" is salient. Who decides that? With all due respect, MDs or medical facilities may not always have a great deal of flexibility themselves to accommodate the patient's requests. MDs may well only see patients on certain days. Agree 100% about not sharing more than necessary.
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@joaf37 I mentioned accommodations in order to be able to do a job, and that may be something related to a disability. Just as a simple example, I broke my ankle badly a few years ago, and I know I would not be able to do a job that required me to stand on my feet all day long. If I was doing a job that could be done while I was seated, that would be a reasonable accommodation. As an example, many store checkout clerks stand and are not allowed to sit, but I have seen a few who are allowed to sit on a tall stool. I'm not a store clerk, but I thought this may explain the meaning of a workplace accommodation. States do have laws about accommodating disabilities in the workplace. Sometimes that is an easy conversation with an employer, or it may not be if the employer starts asking a worker to see doctors they choose to render a decision. That puts the employee in a position where they have to share medical information. You're right, there are many issues to consider.