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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the problem here is that so many teachers are submitting total bs accommodation requests that it puts APS in a position of having to take a hard line on all requests.  If the people submitting requests based on close relatives with risk factors were limited only to people who actually live with people with critical health needs, it would be a lot easier for APS to be lenient in granting those requests even though they don’t strictly have to.  When you have people making requests to teach virtually because their dad has a heart condition but dad lives an hour away and the teacher isn’t responsible for any direct care, that’s a garbage pretense to try to get an accommodation that has no grounds other than the teacher would rather keep working from home.  APS can’t feasibly drill down into all of these requests and figure out what valid and what’s a pretense, so instead they deny all of them.[/quote]

But people aren't applying for accommodations because of dad living miles away. The categories for both rounds was clear. A family member with a high risk condition was defined as one in the same household and you needed to provide documentation from a physician of the condition of that family member and how they are in your household. The specific list of conditions also required documentation from a physician.

The confusion in APS is primarily arising because they sent out form for the 2nd round with the SAME categories as the first round to apply for extending the leave. But then multiple of those categories no longer qualified since they were now going by ADA and not CDC.

Employees applying were not told until they received the denial that the criteria were now different. APS did not communicate that the guidelines for qualifying for round 2 was a completely different set of criteria, and they used a form with options/reasons that still had all the categories from the first round/CDC guidelines.

Why allow an employee to apply based upon childcare issues, pregnancy, or living with a high risk family member if those categories don't qualify? These options were on the application form for round 2. It is just making more work for the HR department to go through all these requests that already don't qualify and document responses, etc.  APS should have very clearly communicated the new criteria.

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