I feel like a good bit of people don’t understand how FMLA works
I actually dont know how FMLA works and have been corrected, apologies lol.
An FMLA violation would be dependent on if the FMLA claim was even opened which usually falls on an insurance agency not your company. You can’t violate something that hasn’t happened yet, right? A request for time off is not the same as using time available on an intermittent or continuous FMLA claim. No one has an intermittent claim for medical leave in case they are shot and hit by a truck lol
So even in a normal circumstance of not being shot say you’re taking care of an individual at home. You open an FMLA claim. But you still have to call off. You try and call off but it’s denied because Ricky the dick from packaging is already off. Well you’re obviously not going in so you get points either through an automated process or a supervisor with no spine that won’t exercise discretion in the name of floor coverage. In the meantime you call your insurance agency responsible for your company’s FMLA claim handling and they process your claim. Once your claim is approved by a case manager and supporting documents then your points go away and you can choose to consume paid time off or have excused unpaid absences and any point accumulated from this leave is negated.
This tweet was captured on 1/3/25. Today is 1/4/25. Claims do not process this quickly to have the potential of being violated.
No. Your insurance company doesn’t have to file an FMLA claim. You request the forms from HR and then your physician(s) complete the paperwork. Insurance has nothing to do with it. You may be confusing FMLA with long or short term disability insurance. FMLA is unpaid leave for family/medical reasons. Short or long term disability insurance would pay part of your wages for a medical leave. It is completely separate from filing for the FMLA leave which is what was denied by Amazon.
talk about me being confidently incorrect huh? i definitely confused the two.
Alabama eh. If she’s guzzling down the Orange Kool-Aid, I have zero fucking sympathy for her work related problem.
I wonder how many lawyers are offering her their services? Because that sounds like a slam dunk lawsuit if I’ve ever seen one.
Is it America? Is it an at-will state? Where you can be let go at any time, for any reason. Corporations over people. COP. All cops are bastards. All corporations are bastards.
See, it all works out in the end.
We are all bass turds.
Fish shit in the water. Totally unsiftable. Totally fucked.
God save America.
From itself.
This, brought to you from Canada. Who is about to be next in the new global fascist “catch and release” system.
Catch democracy, release democracy.
Like a parent with an errant child. And the parent is too lazy or incompetent to stop the child from hurting itself. And bringing the parent down with it.
Oops.
/rant
Despite lemmy thinking CEOs are useless, they’re usually the most important person in the company because they set the tone. That tone rolls downhill. Show me happy or sad employees, I’ll tell you what kind of leadership they have.
Bezos set the grind culture when Amazon was starting, and that’s fine for a startup, what has to be done. But he never backed off, and now we get shit like this, 100% on him.
Sometimes you have to grind at a shit job to work your way up, I get it. But there appears to be no level at Amazon where you’re not under the gun.
If they were deemed useless, they wouldn’t become a target. The useless phrasing is more that their direction for the purpose of the company is useless overall. Line goes up isn’t always a reflection of how well the company is doing for itself and its customers. You are right that CEOs usually set how the company runs, as my work a few years ago transitioned to a new CEO after decades of the first, and it’s showing. What’s frustrating is when they continue to play off that they are the same company and policy to keep morale up, but it’s obvious things are different.
But why should anyone have to grind at a shit job? If your business can only survive by grinding people down, maybe society would be better off without it. If the only way we can get same day delivery is over the burnt-out, permanently injured ex-employees of a multi-national, is it really worth it? Maybe that start-up never should have made it. Maybe strong labor laws should have forced them to scale back their ambitions or close their doors.
I don’t wanna just say “this”, but for real, excellently put.
“But we just have to abuse people for a little while until…”
Then it’s not a viable business model. Easy as that.
Cooperatives are a thing, and they work, they just don’t scale like cancer by generating hype-funding over destroying their employees, so they don’t drum up so much excitement from the moneyed.
This is one of those open and shut FMLA violations that even shitty companies can’t get away with though and they know it.
The lady will be canned one way or another once they get back to the office because they violated some bullshit policy about how you can’t talk to the press or some bullshit. Will probably take a couple months and involve a PIP for “poor performance”
Very few Amazon warehouse workers qualify for FMLA. They intentionally have a system designed to use up people and spit them out in just under a year so they don’t qualify.
There are entire industries of low-skill jobs that intentionally try to keep worker retention low to keep from having to comply with labor laws.