I’m mid-senior in a very large Canadian corporation. I work on a small team whose members are distributed all across the country.
My work is entirely remote-compatible and, when I was hired last year, the company was still opting for full remote work. This was not part of my specific hiring contract, but it was an explicit job parameter at the time and a big part of the position’s appeal, especially because I am full time caretaker of a family member with a medical condition.
In middle of this year, the c-suite decided to mandate return to office for part of every week. This was imposed universally, regardless of job description (some of our positions do need to be in office at least part time—mine is not one of them).
I went to my family doctor and secured documentation verifying that my personal circumstances ought to be accommodated by continued full remote work. That pacified HR for a bit, but my boss and my boss’s boss have been slowly ramping up the pressure on me to follow the RTO mandate, despite it being nothing but extra burden on me with no benefit to my actual professional responsibilities.
Do I have any rights here at all?