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remote working priviledges removed - forced to commute 7 hours per day
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I'm a Northern Girl
Whether they INITIALLY allowed it because of her pregnancy or not, they have continued to allow it for the last five years.
There's no insubordination in not wanting to make a change. I've already said she does not have the option to continue unless the employer chooses to allow it, but being unhappy about having to spend that much time commuting is hardly insubordination.
You're all wet on this one, OH.
There's no insubordination in not wanting to make a change. I've already said she does not have the option to continue unless the employer chooses to allow it, but being unhappy about having to spend that much time commuting is hardly insubordination.
You're all wet on this one, OH.
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OP, stick to quitting before you begin to drive in each day (or ride the train in.) While continuing to work until you find another job is probably not a good option for you due to your health issues, when you are filing for unemployment, DO NOT bring up your having health issues which have heretofore not been an issue in the performance of your job. This would cause you to have to produce a physician's statement that you are fully released to work full time without restrictions. Don't open that can of worms since it is NOT an issue. Just say that yes, you are able available and actively seeking an equivalent full time job. Key word is equivalent. Don't demand anything, don't insist this has to be another at home job. Just say you'd consider 5-10-15 miles an acceptable commute for that next job, you'd consider it.
No one in the unemployment system will ask you "Why can you not commute now when you were doing it ten years ago and you first got this job?" They just say something like, "How long have you been doing this work from home?" and "What were you told by your employer about how your job was changing?" and "What did you say when they told you this?" Refusing a dramatic change in the job conditions you have been working in is not going to be considered insubordinate unless you make a scene and tell them to cram their stupid job up their butts or something similar in the course of telling them you can not accept the new job.
They have the option to change your job, it's legal for them to do it, it may be in an effort to get rid of you. They may have gotten wind that you have some health problems and decide you might cost their insurance too much or something. But it is legal, and they can always say that the business model is changing, or the good of their interests have made it so that your position at home is being eliminated.
Since they do not like people to receive unemployment benefits, and it costs them money, they will of course argue to the unemployment system that they offered you a perfectly reasonable alternative, a seventy something mile each way commute into their downtown offices every day. But the unemployment system is not likely going to agree with them that that is not a significant change to your hiring agreement--or perhaps I should say "current work agreement."
Say something to your employer about how you cannot accept the new conditions, thanks but do NOT want to lose your job if there is any way they could allow you to continue to work from home. Ask them for this, and indicate your willingness to stay on the job in your present situation. But DO NOT work at the new situation, and do not tell them at unemployment that your health is the reason. Seventy plus miles each way isn't a reasonable commute from someone who has been working from home for a significant amount of time.
No one in the unemployment system will ask you "Why can you not commute now when you were doing it ten years ago and you first got this job?" They just say something like, "How long have you been doing this work from home?" and "What were you told by your employer about how your job was changing?" and "What did you say when they told you this?" Refusing a dramatic change in the job conditions you have been working in is not going to be considered insubordinate unless you make a scene and tell them to cram their stupid job up their butts or something similar in the course of telling them you can not accept the new job.
They have the option to change your job, it's legal for them to do it, it may be in an effort to get rid of you. They may have gotten wind that you have some health problems and decide you might cost their insurance too much or something. But it is legal, and they can always say that the business model is changing, or the good of their interests have made it so that your position at home is being eliminated.
Since they do not like people to receive unemployment benefits, and it costs them money, they will of course argue to the unemployment system that they offered you a perfectly reasonable alternative, a seventy something mile each way commute into their downtown offices every day. But the unemployment system is not likely going to agree with them that that is not a significant change to your hiring agreement--or perhaps I should say "current work agreement."
Say something to your employer about how you cannot accept the new conditions, thanks but do NOT want to lose your job if there is any way they could allow you to continue to work from home. Ask them for this, and indicate your willingness to stay on the job in your present situation. But DO NOT work at the new situation, and do not tell them at unemployment that your health is the reason. Seventy plus miles each way isn't a reasonable commute from someone who has been working from home for a significant amount of time.
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