I can't express how infuriated I am right now, and am trying to keep it together so that my wife who just had our 1st beautiful baby girl this October 7th doesn't brake down and lose it.
My wife who has worked for Kaiser for almost 3 years. 2 as a travel L&D RN during COVID mind you. Working 16+ hour shifts was denied our first baby paid maternity leave because she hasn't “technically” worked for Kaiser for one full year. She was hired on full time because she was such an excellent worker as a travel nurse. It's almost been 1 year since her full time hire date. Kaiser is requiring full time workers to have at least 1,250 hours worked required in the 12 months preceding the start of your leave. She has only worked according to Kaiser 529.21 hours towards her eligibility requirements because the 2000+ hours she worked as a travel nurse during the worst pandemic in history doesn't count.
What's even more infuriating is we have been waiting for a month in a half for her to get paid so we can pay bills and survive since my business is slow at the moment and barely keeping us afloat. HR kept telling us it should be coming soon through disability after they submitted the FMLA late. So we kept waiting and waiting barely making ends meet only to find out today in the mail we were denied. How did HR not know about this? How did this slip through the crack? Shouldn't she have been told from the get go? So she could have applied for unemployment instead of FMLA because of their absolute insanity of a rule.
I'm so worried right now and trying to be strong for my wife and telling her it will be fine and not to stress out. But I'm on the verge of braking down right now! I'm worried about everything especially my newborn baby girl! Why is a multi billion dollar company like this to their workers!! Especially a Labor and Delivery Nurse?!? What can I do?! Is this even legal?!
H E L P!!!