Please share if you have successfully gotten work accommodations due to the pandemic and being pregnant. Especially if it’s to telework or remote teach. Any teachers succeed in teaching from home if your schools are opening? If so, what laws, acts, guidelines or “ammunition” have you used to get your accommodations met by HR?

Below is my background/situation:

I am a pregnant teacher whose private school is opening up again with students, even though our city public schools are returning remotely.

I am trying to get the accommodation to remote teach, and my doctor has written a medical note recommending this and has filled out ADA paperwork. HR keeps pressing for additional medical questions, and is asking why I cannot be at work in person to teach.

As a Specials teacher, I would see over 100 people daily, as they are having us teach an entire grade, including lunch duty with masks off and covering recess. Classroom teachers will have a cohort of 10:1 or 12:1, While Specials will have an exposure rate of 100:1 daily.

My husband is high risk as well.

Any laws, acts or revised guidelines to help protect pregnant women until our due date? My doctor says it’s medically advisable to remote teach leading up to my birth date, but HR is still giving me push back. Teachers return August 26th and students return September 8. My due date is October 24 and I do not have maternity leave. I need to hold onto my FMLA for my leave, which is considered a short term disability, so on leave I’m only paid 60% of my paycheck.

My husband works at a private independent school as well in the same city, and he asked for accommodations being high risk. His HR had his supervisor speak with him, and they granted him all of his accommodations.