Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave.
Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave.
"He was coming so fast, there wasn't any time to move all the way out the way"
Scott-Windham returned to Mobile Wednesday night with the bullet still in her foot, along with multiple fractures.
She'll need to return to an orthopedist in two weeks to check on her foot. But the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence, and she worries she'll have to find a new job once she's recovered.
'murica! Everyone thinks if anything happens to you you'll be able to work things out. Here in 'murica you're on your own entirely. I'm going to guess that Amazon is denying her FMLA because she hasn't been there 12 months and therefore are not legally required to. Another great way to scare people into staying at the same shitty job.
The employer isn't required to let sick people be sick?? Or are they only required to grant unpaid sick leave?
This is hard for me to wrap my head around. Here, if a new employee gets sick within the first 8 weeks, the employer can get the pay partially refunded. But the employer must always pay in full during sick leave.
FMLA is a law that protects employees’ jobs while they’re on unpaid medical leave, but you need to be at the job for at least 12 months before it kicks in.
Basically, Amazon denied her unpaid medical leave, (basically just a leave of absence, since it’s unpaid), because she hasn’t been there long enough to be covered by FMLA. So if she takes the leave anyways, she’ll be fired. Basically, they’re threatening to fire her for being a victim, because they’re not legally obligated to keep her job held while she recovers.
Fuck Amazon and fuck every worm that commits daily atrocities behind that name.
That country is a joke
Losing your job because of an illness or injury is normal for hourly waged employees in the US. It's possible a union could have prevented this.
It's very normal (in the US) but not in any way right.
They do here.
If you fire someone just for getting sick, you can expect the union to sue you. They have really good lawyers. Your best option is to settle out of court. And now you are not popular with the union, giving you less leeway in the next case.
It just easier and cheaper to do the right thing, which includes documentation of how you did your best to make it work.
I started a new job as a restaurant host once. The day after my first shift I got violently ill, puked everywhere. I called them up and told them I had the flu and could not work. They never scheduled me again and didn’t pay me for my first shift.
Hey Luigi, you know where to find Bezos? Maybe a little bang bang would set him straight ❤️🙏
How hard would she have to kick someone to lodge it into thier ass from her foot? Sorry, I'm kinda buzzed..
What's an NO attack?
Probably New Orleans attack on new years
New Orleans
Insurance claim process?
False flags aren’t covered as an excuse.
shred amazon all you want--they nearly always deserve it... but the article from the local paper is incomplete.
we don't know if the worker is even eligible for leave under fmla or from amazon employee benefits, nor do we know why the workplace denied the request.
The end result was someone feeling they had to work with a bullet in their foot. Regardless of whatever rules are in place, everything failed that person.
Ah yes, the classic excuse. "The company isn't legally required to give a shit. so it's not a problem".
It's not about what they're legally required to do. They may not be required to, they are not prevented from doing so. It's about the fact the company is a shitty place to work and will fuck employees over in every way possible whenever given the chance. Without exception.
"They might not have filed the correct paperwork prior to being run over and shot" is such a wild take.
we don’t know if the worker is even eligible for leave under fmla or from amazon employee benefits
There's a god damn bullet in her fucking foot! She should be eligible for fucking leave.
we don't know if the worker is even eligible for leave under fmla or from amazon employee benefits, nor do we know why the workplace denied the request.
Counterpoint: every worker ought to be eligible for FMLA and employer benefits, from day 1.
Die in a fire, shitbag.
we don't know if the worker is even eligible for leave under fmla or from amazon employee benefits
Should it matter? Amazon threatened to fire her because she was run over and shot by a terrorist. Her FMLA eligibility shouldn’t be a factor. Sure, Amazon may be legally allowed to fire her, but they’re still dirty cunts for doing it and deserve every ounce of scorn aimed their way.
Maybe instead of slobbing the boss’ knob because “they’re legally allowed to do this shitty thing”, consider demanding better worker protections.
Ruling class chud.