Lol that's like the only time you can't fire someone in the US, is after unpaid FMLA sick leave.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
563 points (97.2% liked)
Technology
75094 readers
2289 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Or in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment, or for whistleblowing to OSHA¹, or for getting pregnant, ...
¹ Or to the SEC, IRS, EPA, NRC, etc.; but not "whistleblowing" on your blog.
Don't forget for trying to form a union too!
Yep.
FMLA doesn't just protect the time off, but the arrival back to work. You do need the physician to document that there will be restrictions on job functions. This can be done retroactively as I learned.
Reddit fucked that up badly
Would they have been better off firing the employee (on their return to work) without providing any reason?
No. While at will employment protects an employer against most forms of wrongful termination, FMLA, from my understanding, superscedes it.
I am not a lawyer so I'm not certain.
However, after your work restriction period ends, then your employer can fire you.
My work has a client who has an employee that can't be fired because he is disabled and on permanent intermittent FMLA. Dude has so much porn on his work computer and nobody can do anything about it.
Damn more echoes of Xitter, this is almost exactly what they did as well lmao
I suppose spez did say he looked up to Elon. I wonder when he'll install an illegal "Reddit" sign on the roof of his HQ?
"R"
On the same level of shitty SEO of "X".
Are we pronouncing Xitter like 'shitter'?
Makes sense to.
At this point working for any form of corporate social media seems like a bad idea.
The fact that it took public outcry for them to begrudgingly fire an admin who was using reddit as their own personal pedophilic hunting ground is a coincidence, I'm sure.
I've been in a situation similar to this but it wasn't clearly illegal of my employer. The pandemic exacerbated my depression and anxiety significantly (and unmasked ADHD), so my performance fell considerably. They didn't take any of that into consideration however.
Lesson learned -- self identify as having a disability. Employers are required by law to ask that, and depression and anxiety are considered disabilities for it. Get it on record so you have a stronger legal case if they do fuck you over.
It's not that easy to "ban" people in the real world, bitch.
We can’t treat people like human beings, we have to make money!
So glad I didn’t get hired there.
Oh hey, I was also fired because of my anxiety. Fun stuff. And by that I mean fuck them.
what about those mods they recently fired
They're all unpaid and probably classified as power users. So they have no employment protections.
And that's my friends, an employee burndown.