Will I Be Being Fired For Not Working Over Time

[COOL BREEZE]

I had my base doctor write a letter for my work today regarding working overtime. The note says I currently have decreased physical endurance. Patient is physically unable to work more than the basic 40 hours. Please exempt him from overtime work. Also please take these remarks under due consideration.

My job has stated everyone is required to put in 3 hours of over time work this weekend, otherwise they will assign mandatory overtime on Monday. It is very difficult to work the current hours let alone the overtime hours. The current disabilities I have that I am rated for plus some new ones are causing a lot of pain-thus pain killer pills.

Now I am concerned that they may fire me. Keep in my I also am under a workman compensation claim that is open that I am being treated for-neck and back pain. My base doctor wrote the note. Keep in my the neurological Doctor that was supposed to be treating me canceled that last 3 appointments-no treatment for the pain. He has been fired by me and I just receive an referral for a new doctor at a different hospital.

[StreetWalker]

I guess it really depends on whom you work for.

My last few years in the USPS I was limited to eight hours per day, no non-scheduled days, no overtime.

They didn't like it but that's not my problem.

[Notorious Kelly]

Sorry to hear you have job worries added to your pain, CB.

I'd ask that question to Labor Relations folks in your county & state, maybe look up labor lawyers and mention the lawyer word at work if you hear any rumblings about your refusal.

No one on their deathbead ever said "Wish I'd spent more time at the office."

You are not their slave and you have a tiger inside.

Chin up!

[COOL BREEZE]

Since I have a workman compensation claim that is not closed, still going to that doctor every few weeks, I'll ask that doctor for a note as well. If they fire me, I do see a law suit on the horizon as my injury required a defective office equipment that was brand new and I was the guinea pig that got injured first. All equipment was turned back to the company that made it for modifications.

Also, I am quite sure because of all the work modifications that they had to made for me at work and all the hospital visits I had last year that will be a consideration. The mandatory overtime is not used on a regular basis as well. Only during high peak-holidays and bad weather. We'll see. I had a co-worker who also has a long list of disabilities causing here to be out on FMLA and hospital visits. She actually told me I need a doctors note and what it needs to say. My doctor went a step further. It sounds like I am going to be in a wheel chair shortly the way it was written. My leg pain has increased tremendously as well as my neck pain.

[Teac]

Technically, if you cannot do the job that they want you to do... they could let you go. I was forced out of civil service into retirement because I could not climb ladders ( to pull cat 5 wiring) or stairs anymore.. and my job was mainly as a computer specialist installation hubs, routers, dsl's ... and software and emails systems... Just think about it, if you can't do the job they want you to do, they have to hire someone else to do the work.... It doesn't matter that its not morally right, what matters is that they can legally let you go.....

[john999]

I guess you are dealing with OWCP. I think that since you have a on the job injury they will have a hard time firing you if their is anything you can do. I was on limited duty for five years with the post office before I went out on total disability via OWCP. I was on OWCP until I got TDIU and OPM disability and SSDI.

[COOL BREEZE]

They approved my request for no over time!