Hi everyone. Not sure where to post this but the wife and I wanted to see if anyone has any experience with this or has suggestions.

We are going through this together and both are being banded. She finally found received her date after 8 long months. She informed the company she works for that in 28 days, she is going to have surgery.

My wife runs payroll for a large company and does have a back up for her job. The gal that does the back up does not like doing this job and does everything she can to get out of it. So once the backup was told she would have to cover payroll for the 1 day, her back up immediately went to her manager and complained.

Well, they had a management meeting and then came out and asked my wife to reschedule her surgery for a date that is more convenient for the company. My wife was very upset that they even had the gall to ask her that.

I'm a manager in a large business and our company would never ask someone to do this. I find it unethical.

Has anyone advice on this. Opinions are great but it would be nice to know what the laws are.

Has anyone experienced this or know someone who has? What did they do?

Thanks!

Your wife should ask for a raise. If she is so indispensable that her surgery has caused this much angst, then the rest of her office must be really incompetent. LOL Seriously, though, companies HAVE to do cross-training and have some redundancy in employee skills so that it is not such a big deal if someone has to be out for sickness/injury/vacation/etc. They are being ridiculous by asking her to postpone her surgery. I'm glad she stood up for herself.

There is work and there is life. Life ALWAYS comes first. Unless by being gone from a job someone will die, it is NOT that important. I never let work dictate my life for me. I come first.