Okay so I will preface this by saying I live in Canada, so some of the rules/laws might be different. That is why I am looking for advice…
So hypothetically I work for a company that provides care to the elderly in a nursing home (the kind where the residents care for themselves mostly).
I have been working there for 4 months now and past my probation. Recently my staff manager informed me the laws pertaining to face masks were changing and I would need to shave. While I was not super eager to shave (had a really nice beard before), I was willing to do it. However, the new face masks were a tighter fit and had a bigger pocket for retaining air. As a person with pretty bad asthma that is triggered principally by heat rather than cold, I raised concerns about the mask. I was informed I would need to provide a doctor's note proving the condition. So I did this, and brought my other doctor's notes pertaining to my special needs (AD/HD) since this was the first time I was being asked for anything like these.
My staff manager told me my note pertaining to asthma wasn't good enough, bullied me for having a poor attitude about this new change (as I had requested to see the law, since I could not find the new changes on my own), and outright denied the existence of my special needs as it has been 4 months (even though I mentioned these in both my cover letter and interview).
He has now cut my hours as well (even though I have got the new mask and did the test for it) and acts as if he can get away with anything.
He feels this way because he holds both the position of STAFF MANAGER and DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES. So my question is, is it legal to hold both of these positions simultaneously. This seems like a really big conflict of interest, legally speaking, to me… hypothetically of course.