baby bonding question

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

What my co worker chooses to do or not do doesn't effect me as much as how management chooses to deal (staffing) with said decision.

We put 40 or so routes on road during Peak. It is imperative that each and every driver show up each and every day. A driver who selfishly chooses to take FMLA during Peak to "bond" with their "newborn" 10 month old would draw the ire of each and every driver who has to pick up his slack.

 

[MAKAVELI]

FMLA is a federal law. State laws will not trump that.

In CA it does.

1. An employee's entitlement to FMLA leave for birth and bonding expires 12 months after the date of birth. Both mothers and fathers have the same right to take FMLA leave for the birth of a child. Birth and bonding leave must be taken as a continuous block of leave unless the employer agrees to allow intermittent leave (e.g., allowing a parent to return to work on a part-time schedule for 10 weeks).
   
   I'll just bold the part where it says that you DO have to take birth and bonding leave continuously.

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs28f.pdf

In California you can break up bonding time.

 

[Jackburton]

We put 40 or so routes on road during Peak. It is imperative that each and every driver show up each and every day. A driver who selfishly chooses to take FMLA during Peak to "bond" with their "newborn" 10 month old would draw the ire of each and every driver who has to pick up his slack.

What others choose to do with their entitlements has nothing to do with your job. Proper staffing is imperative when you run a company that relies on singular employees showing up for work. It's no more "selfish" than to take time off for family member that has cancer or some other long term ailment.

Your opinion on what is acceptable to use FMLA has no bearing on the fact that it is allowed.

Much like my opinion on you taking 6 weeks of vacation off is screwing the drivers around you, that you should come in because it's heavy and cash out 3 of them.

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

Better yet, wait until December to stay home and play "Daddy".

Your co-workers will really appreciate this.

Unlike you, some people don't "play Daddy"- they are actually Fathers. By now you probably realize why you have such a lonely existence. Sad.

 

[Cementups]

We put 40 or so routes on road during Peak. It is imperative that each and every driver show up each and every day. A driver who selfishly chooses to take FMLA during Peak to "bond" with their "newborn" 10 month old would draw the ire of each and every driver who has to pick up his slack.

My daughter's birthday is 12/19. The company did fine without me for that last week before Christmas and the next few after. Plus they had a heads up it was coming so it's not like I cold cocked them.

 

[Hellobrown2000]

FMLA is a federal law. State laws will not trump that.

Maybe you haven't heard of illegal immigration sir.

 

[Covemastah]

I took the whole day off for both my kids births.

Wow ,, you milked it !!

 

[Covemastah]

It's all great to take a month off when the baby comes , but FMLA , is NOT , feeding your family, or paying the mortgage!! If the child is born sick or disabled , I can see it , but not a healthy child !!
You need to feed the family , call me old school , but that's the way it was in my day !!!

 

[burrheadd]

Maybe you haven't heard of illegal immigration sir.

 

[rod]

In California the less you work the more you get paid. They have a paid leave program for everything

 

[Covemastah]

In California the less you work the more you get paid. They have a paid leave program for everything

Sickening

 

[Brownslave688]

You can take FMLA after the baby is born, like not immediately after it's born. For instance, if you qualify for FMLA in May, but the baby is born in April, just wait til May to take it. I think you have up to 12 months after the birth for birth and bonding FMLA, you just have to take it consecutively. But it varies by state, and there are probably 12 other threads about this. Call HR, only they can answer you for your states conditions.

No he has to have been here for a year to be eligible for FMLA.

 

[Brownslave688]

It's all great to take a month off when the baby comes , but FMLA , is NOT , feeding your family, or paying the mortgage!! If the child is born sick or disabled , I can see it , but not a healthy child !!
You need to feed the family , call me old school , but that's the way it was in my day !!!

My wife took off the first 3 months. I took off a couple of days.

 

[Hellobrown2000]

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It was sarcasm. If you looked at or lived somewhere with them you would know they have more rights then citizens.

 

[MAKAVELI]

No he has to have been here for a year to be eligible for FMLA.

Not in California.

 

[MAKAVELI]

In California the less you work the more you get paid. They have a paid leave program for everything

Sickening

Haters gonna hate.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

My daughter's birthday is 12/19. The company did fine without me for that last week before Christmas and the next few after. Plus they had a heads up it was coming so it's not like I cold cocked them.

That's different.

I'm talking someone playing Daddy during Peak for their 11 month old newborn.

 

[Covemastah]

Haters gonna hate.

And "freeloaders " are gonna
"Freeload"

 

[Covemastah]

Hillary LOST !!!
Gtf over it !!!

 

[MAKAVELI]

And "freeloaders " are gonna
"Freeload"

It's not freeloading when we pay into it. Don't hate the playa hate the game.