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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Sun Mar 15, 2020, 04:57 PM Mar 2020

Tomorrow I am going to ask my boss if I can take a month off without pay, without getting fired.

My wife and I are both over 60. I work with the disabled and the company I work with has given us no advise or direction on the virus.

They probably don't know how to handle this because the disabled we work with live on their own. They get 24 hour care. The workers travel from house to house. The people we work with, some of them are in and out of hospitals because of their disabilities, then they return home.

What a nightmare.

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Tomorrow I am going to ask my boss if I can take a month off without pay, without getting fired. (Original Post) shockey80 Mar 2020 OP

Smart move, others should do the same. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #1

Right now we are WFH (forced) at full pay lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #2

We're doing WFH at full pay for now, too. Had a conversation with my CEO this morning... MANative Mar 2020 #4

Go to your doctor and have her/him sign FMLA forms Buckeyeblue Mar 2020 #3

I did with my bosses Friday. Just walking into busy season, and it is dead. LizBeth Mar 2020 #5

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)

1. Smart move, others should do the same.

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Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:04 PM

Mar 2020

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)

2. Right now we are WFH (forced) at full pay

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Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:05 PM

Mar 2020

but I'm thinking a month or so of this and there will be layoffs.

I want to start a petition to have everyone take 10 percent, 20 percent reduction in pay... and everyone stay working from home. For the duration.

This won't be over in 4 or 8 weeks.

Some of us are going to be financially supporting family (one niece just was just laid off from her job, another is worried because she works at a dog boarding place and they have almost zero dogs now because nobody is traveling). So I expect to be giving her money as well.

MANative

(4,112 posts)

4. We're doing WFH at full pay for now, too. Had a conversation with my CEO this morning...

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:10 PM

Mar 2020

and we're looking at delaying salary increases that were planned for April 1 to buy everyone a little time. I've advised her that we should be prepared for 12 weeks of this. (I'm the VP of HR - emergency planning is my responsibility.)

Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)

3. Go to your doctor and have her/him sign FMLA forms

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:09 PM

Mar 2020

You can have up to 12 weeks off per year. If you are high risk I would think you doctor will agree to help you.

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)

5. I did with my bosses Friday. Just walking into busy season, and it is dead.

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Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:13 PM

Mar 2020

They are on board, and absolutely guarantees my job BUT they want me available if they need to call me in. I told them that kinda defeats what I am doing and I might as well stay on full time. I think they are taking the weekend to consider that. I cut yesterdays hours and didn't go in today. I am hoping they see they can easily handle it one employee shy and others have to buck up too.

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