I am having knee surgery in a week and a half. I have submitted and had my leave approved, I'll be out for three weeks. Because I will be out longer than 3 days that are not for vacation I've had to submit for leave approval that was approved.
The frustrating part is that I have accrued enough vacation and personal time to cover my entire leave and still leave me time available to cover another week if needed. The company that handles our leave is telling me that for the first two weeks I'm good to use my accrued time, but the third week I've got to use my short term disability. If I do this I will lose 40% of my income for that week. I think it's ridiculous that they are telling that I can't use my accrued time for 100% of my pay for the last week of my leave. I am waiting on a call back from HR on this issue. Ugh….not what I want to deal with right now!