I just started at this job and haven’t worked long enough to build up sick time or PTO. Well I have used what little I had earned. I have gotten sick several times since starting, and every time I call out my supervisor tells me something along the lines of “Thanks for letting me know, but you have no sick time so, can you work these days instead?”. I work at a 24/7 facility, where all the hourly employees work 3 12hr shifts a week. Whenever I need time off, my schedule switches days so I can get my full time hours each week. I declined benefits, so I thought it’s really on me to get my hours, so if I call out I just won’t get any shifts and that it just hurts me. But that’s not the case at this job, I called out two shifts this week, because I have a nasty cold and now my supervisor is asking me to work Friday/Saturday. I don’t want to, it’s fine by me to not get those hours, but I keep getting told it’s required and I NEED to make up my hours each week that it’s an HR issue if I don’t. I’m confused, is this a law they need to abide by? Every job I’ve worked before this has just given write ups to employees for excessive call outs but I’ve never heard of this. Am I in the wrong for not needing the hours, so wanting to decline working the make up days this week? Other than writing me up and other internal consequences, is there anything that can be considered illegal from not working my hours? Is my employer getting in trouble for me not working my hours? I work in CO, USA.