Did you apply for Family Medical Leave Act or Short Term Disability for your surgery recovery period? Or did you use paid time off, vacation time, sick time, etc.?

I'd like to use FMLA or Short Term Disability and need to look into it with my employer. My main reason is that my job can demand some odd off hours and has higher expectations than I'd like of being available. While I'm sure they'd be better about respecting surgery recovery, I want something that definitively gives me the time off I need to heal without being bothered at all by my employer.

I have to use sick days, my job does not have disability or fmla

~Jenn~

Surgery date 5/18/16

In my State and with my employer...FMLA is the leave of absence (protecting your job while you are out). Short Term Disability is a way to get paid for time off (as long as you pay into it or have short term disability policy). You can take sick or vacation as well (actually you have to use any accrued time where I work).

I used both really. STD covered a portion of my pay but ran in parallel with FMLA. FMLA protects your job but offers no compensation per say. I have a use it or loose policy with PTO and a December surgery so I only had a few days of PTO left by then. STD was a godsend.

I filed for both STD and FMLA

With my work I was told that it was best to do both. I had my sleeve on April 28th. I am on intermittent fmla which covers me for all of my dr appointments from the day I started this process for a year and then I am on short term disability for the block of time I am off for the actual surgery and recovery time until I am released to go back go work.

I was advised by my HR dept that I should be using Short term Disability, for which we had some Met Life insurance coverage.

I am using a week and 1/2 of pto/paid time off. Then will go back to work on light duties for a couple weeks.

I have a bunch of pto banked because I hardly go on big vacations or get sick within the 2 years I have been with my current employer. (they lump together vacation/holidays and sick leave)

I will be using both STD/FMLA for 4 weeks off.

You should speak with your hr department.... generally you want to apply for FMLA to be certain your job is protected... also in my case anyway my short term disability doesn't kick in until day 10 so I had to use sick time for those days

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Yesterday I got my surgery date from my surgeon (July 11) and I asked my boss for the time off. My boss asked me to reschedule the surgery because of another department having extra people out at that time. I was a little upset about that. Anyway, she told me to file for a leave of absence (FMLA?) with Sedgwick. So, I called and started that process. The representative told me that my boss can't tell me to reschedule or deny my time off for surgery. That my job is protected now and as long as I have the paperwork filled out by the doctor then I'm safe.

I hate to ask, but is that true? I have never done a leave of absence before.

That is very true, legally they cannot say anything to you or ask for specifics or tell you when you can or can not have it done...

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Unfortunately, I've had to use it 3x 1 for a broken foot 1 for the surgery and 1 for foot reconstruction

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