Sorta my work, sorta not.... at least theoretically within my line of work in part even if not paid?
Spent a couple hours today dealing with the wife's HR, preparing FMLA documentation, preparing responses to an increasing number of emails progressively attempting to impose illegal requirements, threatening retaliation, retaliating through issuing unreasonable demands, instituting new duties outside historic job training and requirements without ever having any training but adding a 36hr deadline, attempting to deny valid grounds for leave, so on so forth.
This coming from a workplace that banned n95 mask use while demanding use of lesser masks at employee sole expense, and does not implement basic cdc covid safety recommendations.
Needless to say, workplace conditions and illness escalation have made any nominal salary loss while waiting for improvements (or at least vaccine effectiveness to kick in by end of march) not worth the risks to us.
The one saving grace is while we aren't told it's happened, each time we've escalated the behaviors today to the higher level county officials it *appears* parties are being reprimanded due to changes in what is said next (and how it's said.)
So while there's plenty of aggravation and anxiety, more on the wife than myself, there is some progress being made, albeit small. And LOTS of grounds for retaliation claims, interference with rights, so on so forth. Violations aplenty.
