had an injury at work about a year ago, light duty for a month, healed and returned to full working capacity.
recently injured myself again doing the same tasks. pain is coming from the same location as the previous injury. ( first time back on the machine since original injury )
reported the recent injury on a Thursday morning. was spoken to 30 mins before the end of shift on friday ask to attend a doctors appointment for after work, I denied.
was then asked again to attend on Monday, rostered day off, I denied.
then was told I couldn't work any overtime because I was on work cover ( no claim was made, I didn't see any doctor at this point, no capacity certificate)
the next week I was on nightshift, no doctors appointment was made, continued to work the best I could. the injury worsened and I reported several times to my supervisor throughout the week. Reported again in the injury log on the last night of my rostered week. my supervisor told me to do nothing physical for the rest of the shift.
I woke up to emails, one was a confirming a doctors appointment made for my next shift.
the other was an email directly to my doctor from the Hr Manager. I did not consent any contact.
the email contained a list of factual duties that my job includes, but this list only contained the duties I could do after I reported my injury for the second time and my boss told me no more physical work ( paperwork, pushing buttons, forklift work. not the full extent of my labour intensive duties and not a full scope of my injury or initial leading cause of the injury.
also things like " *** has previously complained late last week about a sore Left arm when working " were included in the email.
also talking about my capabilities " *** said that all tasks associated with this function was causing him pain, including driving the forklift. We relieved him of these duties for the remainder of the shift.
and " I hope this additional information assist in *** rehabilitation so we can have him return to work without restriction for the long term"
is this type of email ok? sent to a treating doctor before attending an appointment for a workplace capacity certificate that i did not consent. with misleading or not complete information?