Rhuff makes an excellent point.
Years ago when my wife was pregnant with our second child the public school system which she worked for tried to tell her she can’t work because she couldn’t do her job 100% due to a doctor ordered lifting restriction. I told them that is discrimination and they said it was school policy. I asked them to show me where this policy was written and they told me it wasn’t actually a written policy; I responded by telling them that their policy was then not worth the paper it’s written on and that if they continued to try to enforce it I would seek litigation against them.
Shortly after they said she could return to work but only if we produced a note from my wife’s doctor stating her restrictions and turn it in by a specific date. On that date I hand delivered the doctors note and the person said they would see that the appropriate person would get it. Before she could walk away I asked her to stamp it “Received” and make me a copy; to which I got quite the stink eye, but I wasn’t going to take the chance of them saying they never received it.
Sorry for the long story, but just trying to point out the unfortunate necessity to cross your T’s and dot your I’s; always better to be safe, cover your butt and leave nothing to chance.
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