There's probably a better place for this but I don't know it and reading about people getting screwed by work here and seeing all the advice is what made me want to get ahead of this thing.
I work at a Dollar Store as a CSR, red not yellow, and at the end of last month I ended up getting COVID after my Dad got it. We have it in printouts from the company that if we have a positive test and are vaxed we get 5 paid days.
I sent my test results (Two tests actually) and my vaccination card to my Store Manager after I got my results back after two days off who sent it to the District Manger to do what needed to be done. I figured that was it I and went into rest mode because I felt like shit. I figured the money would be on my next payday but when that came it wasn't. Just what I earned before I got sick. I went back the next day after payday so I brought it up to my Manager and they told me the DM really didn't know what he was doing with this whole situation and was even at one point saying I could come back after 4 days if I wore my mask before he came back the next day and and took that back after someone corrected him. I ended up being out two weeks all together. Store Manager said that it might be on the NEXT payday but she'll bring it up to the DM when she gets back after the weekend. A countrywide employee FB group I'm in says I was supposed to get a call from the company while sick to confirm all this but I never did.
Thing is I don't trust this DM really. Guy tried to write me up once for calling out because I had a Migraine that made me puke if I went out of the dark and only couldn't because COVID safety rules were in full force at the time. He also waited till a day I was off and came in to hide the steel folding chair I'd use on my break. I think it's a legit possibility that he'll go “Oh you were supposed to ask for me to do that while you were sick, too late now that you're better and working again” even though there is no documentation with Instructions on this whole deal. Just the one saying what we're entitled to.
Getting sick really fucked me over. I had to spend my tax return to get food delivered since neither one of us could cook anything while sick as we were and it killed my plan of paying for my Mom to go get an eye exam and glasses for her birthday yesterday because I missed the work that was going to pay for that. That 5 days would pretty much give me my tax return back.