“It’s just nerves. Everybody gets anxious at work.” That line is not a quote from any one person. It is the reaction many employees with social anxiety expect to hear, which is why so many of them never ask for…
The person who helped raise you was not your parent on paper, and when they died, your time off depended on how understanding your manager felt that week. It should not work that way. For many people, it has. The…
You were already off work and already worried about money, and then the doctor’s office said there was a fee just to fill out the form. It felt wrong. You paid it anyway, because the benefits could not start without…
“Just tell me what’s wrong, and I’ll approve the leave.” Managers say some version of that every day. It sounds reasonable. It isn’t. Under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), an employer’s certification form can ask your doctor…
You ask for a reserved parking spot closer to the entrance because a medical condition makes the long walk from the back lot difficult some days. Your manager says no, the lot is first-come, first-served for everyone, and that is…
“I’m not the one who’s sick.” Between 35-plus years in HR, including thousands of leave and accommodation matters, and now my own law practice, that line comes up more than almost any other. An employee’s parent, spouse, or child gets…
You asked for time off to go to your kid’s school meeting, and your manager acted like you were asking for a personal favor instead of something the law actually protects. This shows up constantly as the school year starts…
Your spouse came home on leave from deployment, and your employer treated your request for time off like an inconvenience instead of something the law actually addresses. This is common enough, with California’s large military and veteran population, that the…
If your business has San Francisco employees, the eligibility clock you have been tracking for the city’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance is about to change, and the change arrives on a size-based schedule that is easy to miss until it…
“I stopped mentioning it,” she said. “I figured it was just something I had to push through on my own.” The exhaustion, the disrupted sleep, the trouble concentrating by afternoon: she assumed none of it was her employer’s problem to…
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