Dec 10, 2021 05:21PM exbrnxgrl wrote:

I am not a lawyer and this shouldn’t be considered legal advice. I am a recently retired public school teacher. When our schools gradually moved to in person instruction, teachers who still felt uncomfortable or who had medical reasons for not returning were offered the chance to continue teaching remotely to those students whose families did not want them to attend in person. For this school year, when only in person instruction was planned, teachers who had doctor verified medical reasons to be out were offered an unpaid leave of absence, though they could use sick days or disability as applicable as would have been the case pre-pandemic. Families were still offered the option of remote learning but an outside company was hired to provide remote instruction, not district teachers. FYI, very few families continued with remote learning (just 2 from my former school!). My point is that now that we’re back to “normal” school, we are also back to the normal rules and regs that cover absences. Just feeling uncomfortable is not a reason for employers to continue to allow folks to work from home. ADA requires reasonable accommodations for those who are sick or disabled, but at the very least, your doctor would probably need to write a note stating that your health makes it impossible for you to work in person. At a certain point during the pandemic many employers made major accommodations to keep employees safe and healthy however they seem to be moving back to in person work for many of their employees. Personally, I don’t think your situation is an ADA violation but I could be wrong.