I was hired on 3/16/09. I told my supervisor about two months in advance that I was going to be having surgery and would need two weeks off. After I already had my surgery my supervisor told me that my doctor’s note doesn’t mean anything because I haven’t been working there long enough. I tried to call and say I still wasn’t feeling well enough to go to work on 6/26 and I was told that I need to be there. I don’t think that I should have even had to call because I shouldn’t have been on the schedule in the first place and from what I understood from reading about the policies at my work, I don’t think that they are even supposed to let me go back until I show them a note from my doctor saying that I can. I am not planning on going to work tomorrow because I am still not feeling very good at all and I’m pretty sure that I am going to be fired for not going.
Hi,
I have a question or two …
Have you or have you not been released by your doctor to return to work?
An employer who allows or insist an employee come back to work before a doctor releases them back to work .. is bad news for the employer.
Even though you wouldn’t be eligible for FMLA .. did you get a personal leave for this surgery?
Keep following the employer’s call off procedures .. you don’t want them to be able to raise that as the reason you were fired.