work restrictions

[whatelks67]

My husband had a disk replacement in Aug. of 2008.  Since then he has been on light duty at work with severe limitations of what he can do.  They include, but not limited to :no climbing, lifting more then 5 lbs., bending, authorized to take rest breaks as needed, and not able to sit/stand for long periods of time.
Currently, his job has requested that he do a job that will require him to go up and down a set of stairs that has about 20+ steps(in a warehouse leading to a loft with no A/C in 90+degree weather) there would also be a good deal of bending to see the parts on the shelves that are low to the floor, and up on ladders for those that are on the higher shelves, not including all the stairs that he would be going up and down all day to get relief from the heat, to get water, to go to the restroom, to take breaks or lunch.  
I will tell you that he did take the TCH(? I think that is what it was called) test to rate his disability, and see what range of ability that he has. During this test he was only able to go up a 12 step set of step 2 times befor it became so painful that he could not do it anymore, and it took a couple days for the pain from this test to dull.
So having said all that, do you think that this job that he is being requested to do would fall into his drs. restrictions?  We do have a call in to his actual dr., but it could take atleast a day to get a response as it has to go from a voice-mail message to his nurse to the dr. and then a response back to the nurse and then to us.  

[whatelks67]

Our Dr. got back to us very quickly(shock, shock) but his response was that the restrictions were specific and that he didn't understand how they could not see the work that they wanted my husband to do was in violation of these restrictions.  He told us to contact the HR dept. and see if they needed to have some thing even more specific written out, or if they were just not aware that one of their depts was trying to circumvent the dr. restrictions for work.  Dr. said to refuse work as it falls outside of work scope allowable per restrictions.  
Thank you for your response.  We thought we were right, that it would not be allowed, but sometimes your thought process gets jumbled, and you like to get confirmation.

[madnsn2]

i meant HR not GR i hate typing sorry,

[madnsn2]

the rextrictions you said are clearly being violated by the mere task of climbing steps etc you said his dr restrcitions are no climbing period.  Im on std from wrok and all GR takes these dr restrictions seriouly in fact if you dont point out to the job that this is violating his dr limitations you could be liable i would think for failure to notify the job of such limitations should he get further hurt because of his illness.

Tell him to visit HR etc  and show a copy of the dr note with restricitons and he needs to stand up for his rights under FMLA which covers this