New employee unable to return to office

[monotonousmum]

Someone on my team started working for us in December - a few days before we were told to work from home again. Employed through and agent, not direct - if that makes a difference.

Happily (it seemed) was in the office for those few days. We were only doing one day a week each in the office at that point.
I wasn't happy about the return home, as it makes training very difficult and she's not had an easy start because of that. I've kept her on easy tasks for this reason, until we return and can do proper training. She seems OK so far, just desperately in need of more training.

Next week we are due back in the office - this was discussed last week (2 weeks notice) and I've said I'd like her in the office 3-4 days a week to start, to attend training. All agreed, no issues.
This would then drop down to 2 days a week in line with the rest of the team, once fully trained and capable of doing any part of the job from home.

She's now gone to my collegue to say she can't return more than one day a week, if at all, and has got a doctors note to confirm this.

I'm not really interested in whether or not I should believe her, she has a doctors note and I'm not going to accuse anyone of lying. Not mentioning it to me when discussed has pissed me off, and in December there didn't seem to be an issue attending the office every day (ongoing medical issue - not new). But we are where we are.

We were clear in the interview that currently the team were doing one day a week in the office but this was due to increase, and they must be able to work from the office full time if that's what the business decides.

My AIBU:
Would it be unreasonable/unprofessional/illegal to say, 'if your medical issue prevents you from attending your place of work then you're off sick until it's resolved'?

I know there is some work she can do from home, but it's not sustainable to keep doing these easy tasks indefinitely - it's not what she's employed for.

There may be some doubt over what the agent told her regarding working from home - which shouldn't really be my problem if the agent is lying to get staff, but the interview with us was definitely clear.

@2022success

Whenever I have had problems with agency staff I just call the agency and say I don't want them any more - can they send me a replacement please.

What a charming person you are!

@Tzimi I'm very glad you're not working for me either.

Are you the CFer being discussed by any chance?................

@worriedatthemoment

I worked for a agency for a company like that , they basically let me go as i had to have two occasions of die to covid in the time when you had to isolate if a contact until a pcr I was only there a couple of months and the agency just let me go they never used this excuse just made up i wasn't grasping the job like they thought I would , which was rubbish as They had been happy leaving me as the oky one in the office whilst they all wfh and told me in the interview it was a wfh with occasional office yet i ended up being just the one in the office But anyway they got rid of me easily and I didn't have a leg to stand on

That's the problem, everyone has taken their cue from Boris Johnson & nobody feels they have to be honest anymore. Employers think they are entitled to lie as much as they want, and hire & fire people whenever they feel like it.

[quote BoodleBug51]@Tzimi I'm very glad you're not working for me either.

Are you the CFer being discussed by any chance?................[/quote]
I've worked for enough narcissistic bullies to recognise them straight away. People like you shouldn't be given the opportunity to be responsible for employees.

No one is owed a job. You actually have to be prepared to do the job you were employed to do.