So I’m in a sticky situation. My meniscus has popped locking my knee into place which is preventing me from walking. This injury happened at home.
Now my job requires me to be onsite but I obviously can’t come in and do onsite work for safety reasons and for the fact I might need surgery and am in a lot of pain. I haven’t talked to my manager yet but I’m afraid I’m going to have to use PTO and ultimately be denied precious vacation time in the future for lack of PTO. I have enough savings to pay the bills for the time being to survive as I am living out of home just out of college.
FMLA requires you to be working at your company for at least 1-year and I haven’t reached that milestone yet. I might be able to collect on unemployment but I just want to be guaranteed a job after this. Anyone else think the 1-year requirement is garbage considering that anything can happen at anytime to anyone?