teacher has doctor's note

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What is the name of your state? California
I was wondering if anyone can help me on this one. High School Teacher (in California) states that they injured themselves in the process of moving to a new classroom. No incident report filed. No workman's comp. filed. She has stated, however, that she has a doctor's note that supposedly prevents her from lifting heavy materials and traveling to different classrooms. What level of accommodation should she get, if she has not filed workman's comp? Can a doctor's note or workman's comp file, force the school into accomodating this teacher completely (i.e. change the room assignments so that she does not have to travel from one classroom to another to teach high school students)?
Thanks for your help
What is the name of your state?

 

[cbg]

The answer provided here assumes that the teacher is not working under a contract that specifies otherwise.

Whether she has or has not filed a workers comp claim has no bearing on whether she is entitled to an accomodation and if so, what level of accomodation it must be.

Outside of FMLA and occasionally the ADA, a doctor's note has no force in employment law and an employer has no obligation to honor it.

Unless she is permanently disabled to the point that the ADA comes into play (no short term disabilities and only a fraction of long term disabilities actually qualify for ADA protection) she is not entitled under the law to any accomodation at all. IF the ADA applies, whether or not a change in room assignments would be considered "reasonable" is too situation specific to be called here. Even under the ADA, the employer is not obligated to provide the accomodation the doctor recommends, only one that works.

 

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Thank you for the advice

 

[justalayman]

if she travels to school, and apparently she enters the school to teach, why can;t she move from room to room?

So what would cause them (let alone a doc writing a note) to not be able to move from room to room?

A wheelchair (powered if neccessary)provides mobility. I have yet to see a student somewhere that would not carry a teachers books as they suck up for those brownie points a teacher assigns.

Schools must be ADA defined accessable so she would be able to access any classroom.

I can't see this as a big problem unless the person involved wants to be a whiner.