Can an employer put you on medical leave without your knowledge or notifying you and then call you into work
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Can an employer put you on medical leave without your knowledge or notifying you and then call you into work
I’m a certified CNA I am 24 weeks
pregnant I am on a 20 lb lifting
restriction and just recently receive
partial unemployment my job then put me
on a leave of absence without my
knowledge or notifying me I found out
from unemployment that I was on a leave
of absence but my job is still calling
me to come to work can they do this
Asked on May 7, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, Connecticut
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
An employer may put employees on leave as a general matter without prior notice to them. An employer may place an employee on leave for medical reasons IF the employee's condition makes it impossible for her to do her job, even with reasonable accommodations: for example, some nursing and nursing-type positions require that the employee be able to support an adult as a regular part of the work, and someone with a 20 lb lifting restriction clearly could not do that. Am employer may place on leave (or even potentially terminate) someone who simply cannot do his or her job.
You can't be on leave and working simultanously: that would be inconsistent. You can be placed on leave then the employer could rethink matters and call you into work instead.
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