- Jurisdiction
- Arizona
On the 5th of November my girlfriend whom I share a home with came down with COVID symptoms. I experienced tell tale symptoms of COVID that weekend. She went and got tested on the 7th and received a positive diagnosis. I decided to tough it out, I do sales and my job is very demanding so I worked a half day essentially that Monday. I started to feel okay enough to tough it out, but I probably should have taken the week off because my condition only started to worsen. By Friday the 12th I decided I was way too sick to be working a sought a COVID test at a local urgent care. My girlfriend works for a large corporation and was granted FMLA without issue even though she had no sick time. I let my boss know on Friday that I was going to get a COVID test and look into FMLA. I told him my physical and mental health was struggling. He asked me if it was related to COVID or something else. I think that question is pretty inappropriate coming from an employer. I let him know tonight on Saturday the 13th that I had gotten my PCR test and asked if I should go through my HR representative to seek information about FMLA. I also told him I'd be needing to take some time off and if he could cover my appointments, to which he said he would. He told me he doesn't think that I'm eligible for FMLA, but said my best bet was to go reach out to HR. I asked him why I might not be eligible. He replied that "I think FMLA is like 30 days+, But she will know more on that". He then immediately asked to have a conversation with me about work related matters on Monday. I told him I'm minute to minute and would like to focus on my health. I want to know if I am being mistreated by my employer, if they fire me due to this will I have a strong case considering everything I've seen says I'm eligible for FMLA. I have a feeling I might be retaliated against since my company is greedy and my boss equally so. Mind you my performance with the company has been stellar and I've never had any write ups or performance issues.