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<blockquote data-quote="AndBreathe" data-source="post: 799453" data-attributes="member: 88961"><p>I'm no HR person or expert in Canadian employment discrimination laws, but in UK to take sick leave or longer than 5 working days, you need to have a certificate from your doctor stating you are unfit for work. I couldn't see my GP signing such a certificate on the grounds I might not be too well at some point in the future.</p><p></p><p>I would suggest you engage with HR and voice your concerns in a cogent manner. Not just, I don't think I'll be able to control this in the heat, when I can't have a nice walk after dinner, but factually, and unemotionally, backed up by your blood score data. It would be useful if you had historic data from a period in a similar region.</p><p></p><p>On that basis, you have raised concerns, and shorten any potential period of investigation/outcome should the need arise. But, if you are 60, and no longer able to do the material duties of your job, then you have to investigate the alternatives.</p><p></p><p>Your profile states you are an "international civil servant", on which basis you are working for the public sector. It seems highly likely this sort of issue will have arisen in the past, so there may be precedents in situ to give you guidance. I think you can formulate a preferred outcome in your mind, but unless you resign or apply for immediate early retirement (which I assume would be granted or refused at your employe'so discretion), you don't hold all the balls in your hands.</p><p></p><p>What makes you feel that the Canadian Civile Service/Foreign Office or whichever department you work for will not have an similarly suitable qualified person with whose posting you could be swapped? There must be some form of succession planning in place, surely?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AndBreathe, post: 799453, member: 88961"] I'm no HR person or expert in Canadian employment discrimination laws, but in UK to take sick leave or longer than 5 working days, you need to have a certificate from your doctor stating you are unfit for work. I couldn't see my GP signing such a certificate on the grounds I might not be too well at some point in the future. I would suggest you engage with HR and voice your concerns in a cogent manner. Not just, I don't think I'll be able to control this in the heat, when I can't have a nice walk after dinner, but factually, and unemotionally, backed up by your blood score data. It would be useful if you had historic data from a period in a similar region. On that basis, you have raised concerns, and shorten any potential period of investigation/outcome should the need arise. But, if you are 60, and no longer able to do the material duties of your job, then you have to investigate the alternatives. Your profile states you are an "international civil servant", on which basis you are working for the public sector. It seems highly likely this sort of issue will have arisen in the past, so there may be precedents in situ to give you guidance. I think you can formulate a preferred outcome in your mind, but unless you resign or apply for immediate early retirement (which I assume would be granted or refused at your employe'so discretion), you don't hold all the balls in your hands. What makes you feel that the Canadian Civile Service/Foreign Office or whichever department you work for will not have an similarly suitable qualified person with whose posting you could be swapped? There must be some form of succession planning in place, surely? [/QUOTE]
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