• Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      FMLA is unpaid. You only get paid to miss work if you use your vacation time or if you had paid for short term disability insurance, otherwise you are fucked. I know a woman who was forced to return to work 6 weeks after giving birth because her leave was unpaid and she couldn’t afford to take any more unpaid leave

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        3 days ago

        I did not need to use my vacation time and did not have short term disability. Sounds like my company did me a solid