Is this appropriate?

[Donk22]

Doing this anon for obvious reasons.

Employee is advised to continue working from home by clinician and by employers OH advisors. Employee throughout has said they are not asking to work from home but all parties are advised to do so and does. Employer not very happy and questions it but does not say "no" then asks for the employee to make a formal request for flexible working. This is after having worked from home for a year+ with no such request required.

Does this sound right? Get the impression the employer is trying to twist things.

[psi310398]

Is the concern that the request might be a prelude to an actual or a constructive dismissal?

Would the answer be to make the request setting out the salient facts re the medical and OH advice and include the statement that the request is in response to the employer asking for a written request to be made? That way there would be a clear audit trail that the request had only been made to comply with the employer’s wishes and was not at the behest of the employee.

That said, I am no employment expert.

[a_dreamer]

I know some companies who have changed employees contracts to remote should the employee intend to stay as a home worker. In some instances I know people have taken pay cuts as they no longer need to live in the city.

I'm not an expert, but what I'd make sure is that everything is clearly documented, then if there is something a bit dodgy going on it is easy to apportion fault

[Countdown]

Donk22 said:

Doing this anon for obvious reasons.

Employee is advised to continue working from home by clinician and by employers OH advisors. Employee throughout has said they are not asking to work from home but all parties are advised to do so and does. Employer not very happy and questions it but does not say "no" then asks for the employee to make a formal request for flexible working. This is after having worked from home for a year+ with no such request required.

Does this sound right? Get the impression the employer is trying to twist things.

If the Employee isn’t asking to WFH and the Employer doesn’t want them to WFH why are a “Clinician” and OH getting involved?

It sounds like Employee would prefer to WFH but Employer doesn’t trust them. If it was me I’d go in or start looking for a new job.

[Rushjob]

Countdown said:

Donk22 said:

Doing this anon for obvious reasons.

Employee is advised to continue working from home by clinician and by employers OH advisors. Employee throughout has said they are not asking to work from home but all parties are advised to do so and does. Employer not very happy and questions it but does not say "no" then asks for the employee to make a formal request for flexible working. This is after having worked from home for a year+ with no such request required.

Does this sound right? Get the impression the employer is trying to twist things.

If the Employee isn’t asking to WFH and the Employer doesn’t want them to WFH why are a “Clinician” and OH getting involved?

It sounds like Employee would prefer to WFH but Employer doesn’t trust them. If it was me I’d go in or start looking for a new job.

Or just maybe it's possibly because the Employee has a genuine ongoing health issue and both the Employee's Clinician and the Occ Health folks paid for by the company are actually doing the job that they're paid to do........

[Donk22]

Rushjob said:

Countdown said:

Donk22 said:

Doing this anon for obvious reasons.

Employee is advised to continue working from home by clinician and by employers OH advisors. Employee throughout has said they are not asking to work from home but all parties are advised to do so and does. Employer not very happy and questions it but does not say "no" then asks for the employee to make a formal request for flexible working. This is after having worked from home for a year+ with no such request required.

Does this sound right? Get the impression the employer is trying to twist things.

If the Employee isn’t asking to WFH and the Employer doesn’t want them to WFH why are a “Clinician” and OH getting involved?

It sounds like Employee would prefer to WFH but Employer doesn’t trust them. If it was me I’d go in or start looking for a new job.

Or just maybe it's possibly because the Employee has a genuine ongoing health issue and both the Employee's Clinician and the Occ Health folks paid for by the company are actually doing the job that they're paid to do........

First off, thanks all for the replys. Very much above, I really hate being at home, alone and isolated. Especially as my manager is making decisions against my advice which they do not have the experience or knowledge to do which is resulting in huge overspends, technical issues and staffing problems. FD has said they are aware and ignoring and I have raised this seperately with senior management but they want to schedule a meeting at some point "in the future". Maybe I'll just drift off into a blissful retirement on their coin.