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    Default Re: Employee Disciplined for Missing Work After Confusion Over Request for Medical Le

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    That's all well and good -- but that doesn't mean that he was disabled from work during the time prior to his entry into rehab, and he chose not to tell his employer that he was sitting at home during the week after his approved FMLA leave ended and when he entered rehab.
    What did his employer think he would be doing then?? He told his boss he may not go into rehab until the following week sometime and that he wasn't mentally fit to be at his job until then and asked to be put on admin leave until he goes into rehab. The manager told him he'd find out if that was okay and then found out and called him back and told him as much and didn't tell him he needed to fill out any paperwork. As far as he knew he was in the clear. His manager knew he wasn't going to be back into work.
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    Was that yet another lie? Because if he went through a process to have his employer disable him from working based on his mental state, and they in fact did so, none of this would be an issue.
    Nope. I can see by our phone records that he called the hotline that afternoon before he called his boss. It was a 15 minute phone call.
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    Right -- he is disabled during the time he was in rehab (and his employer has apparently not figured out that he left before the program ended), but he was not disabled from working after his three week leave for his (fake) back injury ended, but before he went into rehab.
    There was no set time for him to be in rehab. I attended the intake session and the doctor said he could be there anywhere from 10-21 days and that most people leave around day 14-17.
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    You also make it sound like the insurance company found that inpatient treatment was not necessary, and that the treatment facility concurred with that determination when discharging him after 14 days.
    It says right there in the benefits pamphlet, once I read it close enough, that insurance will pay for up to 14 days of treatment.
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    I don't actually have to look at another site to see that (a) she doesn't see a problem with her husband's lying to his employer to get protected time off of work, (b) she doesn't hold her husband accountable for his actions, and (c) her husband's decision to take five weeks off of work without pay was just fine, but somehow it's the employer's fault that she can't afford a cat sitter for her planned vacation.
    Oh it's a H-U-G-E problem that my husband lies to me and his employer about not going to work! I have wanted to go behind his back and send a text to his manager telling him all the reasons that he isn't coming in, but seeing as how I have no backbone and can't tell my husband what I really think, I don't do it. Hell no it wasn't fine for him to take 5 weeks off of work but he won't listen to me and will do what he wants and I just go along with it like the meek person I am. And yes, it is the employers fault that we would have to pay for anything because it all goes back to his manager who didn't turn in the correct paperwork or inform my husband that him (the manager) simply saying "it's all taken care of...go get better and we'll see you when you get back" when he knew he wasn't going to be into work apparently wasn't enough and now the blame is back on my husband.

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