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Working threatening to fire unless I go in

NAS64138

Hi,

I have been working from home since around 2020 due to Covid, though before that  I was already trying to request to work from home as I was having shutdowns in work. I had an occupational health assessment done where they said I should continue to work from home unless it was essential to go back into the office. Now however my work have declared despite everybody working 2 days a week from home that it is essential I go back in, and when I asked why they gave reason such as "to watch management to learn good behaviours" and "so when training people you can see their reactions to before understand if they are getting it".

I tried to explain that basically all their reasons are things that as an autistic person I can't do and that it shows a complete lack of understand of my disability, but they refuse to discuss it further and are now just saying "you are not in a position of power" and implying I will lose my job if I don't go in due to being put on a PIP.

Does anybody have any advice on how legal this is or if I will just need to look for other jobs while suffering probably daily shutdown / meltdowns? I'm honestly scared at this point, I had a discussion yesterday which resulted in a meltdown and curling into a ball for 2 hours, and they have said they are booking in something else for today and need to organise an "in person meeting" to prevent things "getting worse".

Is this legal? does autism have so little protection that you are forced to just have daily meltdowns if thats what an employer demands?

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  • Are they expecting you in 5 days a week ? have they said what attendance they would want from you (say ignoring for the moment any adjustments you do need)?  .  Does seem they maybe on a targeted mission - so yes do document any conversations (as others have said) ? perhaps email notes to your personal email address of what was said, so at least you have a record should you need it.  Have you seen evidence that other colleague have already been made to RTO or are also being approached right now ?

    Good luck too.  I know in the past I have just walked out rather than fight my corner having experience some bad managers in toxic workplaces - maybe now, with my diagnosis, I perhaps seek a better outcome

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  • Are they expecting you in 5 days a week ? have they said what attendance they would want from you (say ignoring for the moment any adjustments you do need)?  .  Does seem they maybe on a targeted mission - so yes do document any conversations (as others have said) ? perhaps email notes to your personal email address of what was said, so at least you have a record should you need it.  Have you seen evidence that other colleague have already been made to RTO or are also being approached right now ?

    Good luck too.  I know in the past I have just walked out rather than fight my corner having experience some bad managers in toxic workplaces - maybe now, with my diagnosis, I perhaps seek a better outcome

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  • in reply to Jalapeno

    They are saying they want to start slowly phasing me in to 3 days a week like everybody else, starting with an in person chat with a manager to discuss it, however they have said people will be working 4 days a week soon and have been upping the days since people were allowed back in the office so by the end of this year I expect either 5 days a week or at least an announcement that its coming.

    Sadly nobody else seems willing to risk complaining about anything, and there doesn't seem to be anybody else with disabilities in my immediate team, which I feel is also part of why they are targeting me for this, as this year they made 4.3 billion in profits with the CEO being paid nearly 17 million but almost nobody below a manager level got a pay rise at all, and my complaints about this were met with "we pay a good rate compared to other banks, this isn't an issue". 

    Sadly I think I just learnt to late why nobody else complains about being treated like cattle, its because they will find a way to force you out, I'm just hoping that the method they chose for me bites them in the bum as they have no excuses relating to my work as I'm not trained to work on 3 teams (most people aren't even trained for 2), and have always been a higher performer, made many suggestions on improvements and written training guides for people, so this is the only option they have.