My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Wisconsin.
I was hired Aug 29th 2014 and they did know i had an 8 month old at that time. I did have to take more then average amount of days to care for my daughter, all with doctor's excuses. But i was told flat out, "You need to figure out something to do with your daughter!, you are a fantastic worker and no one can do what you do around here but you must do something with your daughter because you cannot take care of her anymore when she becomes ill. She got a bit older and began outgrowing all the little viruses that would get her sent home from daycare and things started to look up...until she got an ear infection the last week of May and I had to take her to he seen. Then June 1st i got myself ready for work as i always did and then went to wake her to get her ready to find her body COVERED in a terrible horrifying rash. I told my boss i was taking her to the Emergency room and was told ok. Took her in was told possible virus but not sure, gave her new medication for the ear infection that never went away. I then took her to daycare and went to work, ended up working a half day that day. The ER did tell me because they didn't know what was causing this rash, which looked like she could of gobe into shock at anytime, so i made an appointment with her doctor's office Tues June 2nd 2015 @6pm so i would not miss any work. I then received a phone call from my daughter's daycare stating she was running a 103°fever and the rash was now turning into large swollen bruises and that she was passing out and i needed to come get her immediately. So i told my boss exactly what i was told and by this time was in tears freaking out terribly because we still have no clue what is causing this and it could have been life threatening. Anyway we were in the ER and doctor's office 4 out of 5 days that week and I was told by doctors to keep her home and safe. I kept my employer in the loop the entire time. I even asked about FMLA and was told i did not qualify due to not being there a year yet. Now remember i was hired Aug 29th 2014 and fired June 8th 2015. So i was there almost a year and now that I've done a bit more reading it states somewhere that if the employer has a certain amount of employees then I should have been granted FMLA, but they refused. Now again, i was told over and over, what a wonderful job i was doing and how amazing i was at my job. Anyway i ended up having to care for her that entire week and was told to schedule her follow ups for same day so not to miss anymore work but come Monday, i come in, usual work day until lunch when they called me in bk to fire me and was told i needed to be at home caring for my daughter. Then when i file unemployment they lied on the form saying i was fired for tardiness, which i was never repremanded for. So what do i do? They do discriminate on a regular everyday basis, as a matter of fact i was trained to discriminate against sex, age and anyone that had filed a work injury against them. Do i have a case? Plz help. Again i am a single mother with a young daughter and i loved what i did for them and i feel i was done wrong in a few ways, no FMLA, told to figure out something to do with my daughter and then they lie on my unemployment file for why i was terminated.