The staffer was allegedly fired for poor performance after taking sick leave for anxiety.
Reddit Taken To SF Court for Firing Worker With Anxiety: Lawsuit::A former Reddit staffer was fired for “poor performance” after taking three months of sick leave, a lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleges.
FMLA doesn’t just protect the time off, but the arrival back to work. You do need the physician to document that there will be restrictions on job functions. This can be done retroactively as I learned.
My work has a client who has an employee that can’t be fired because he is disabled and on permanent intermittent FMLA. Dude has so much porn on his work computer and nobody can do anything about it.
I’ve been in a situation similar to this but it wasn’t clearly illegal of my employer. The pandemic exacerbated my depression and anxiety significantly (and unmasked ADHD), so my performance fell considerably. They didn’t take any of that into consideration however.
Lesson learned – self identify as having a disability. Employers are required by law to ask that, and depression and anxiety are considered disabilities for it. Get it on record so you have a stronger legal case if they do fuck you over.
The fact that it took public outcry for them to begrudgingly fire an admin who was using reddit as their own personal pedophilic hunting ground is a coincidence, I’m sure.
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At this point working for any form of corporate social media seems like a bad idea.
Oh hey, I was also fired because of my anxiety. Fun stuff. And by that I mean fuck them.
We can’t treat people like human beings, we have to make money!
So glad I didn’t get hired there.
Lol that’s like the only time you can’t fire someone in the US, is after unpaid FMLA sick leave.
Or in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment, or for whistleblowing to OSHA¹, or for getting pregnant, …
¹ Or to the SEC, IRS, EPA, NRC, etc.; but not “whistleblowing” on your blog.
Yep.
FMLA doesn’t just protect the time off, but the arrival back to work. You do need the physician to document that there will be restrictions on job functions. This can be done retroactively as I learned.
Reddit fucked that up badly
Would they have been better off firing the employee (on their return to work) without providing any reason?
No. While at will employment protects an employer against most forms of wrongful termination, FMLA, from my understanding, superscedes it.
I am not a lawyer so I’m not certain.
However, after your work restriction period ends, then your employer can fire you.
My work has a client who has an employee that can’t be fired because he is disabled and on permanent intermittent FMLA. Dude has so much porn on his work computer and nobody can do anything about it.
what about those mods they recently fired
I’ve been in a situation similar to this but it wasn’t clearly illegal of my employer. The pandemic exacerbated my depression and anxiety significantly (and unmasked ADHD), so my performance fell considerably. They didn’t take any of that into consideration however.
Lesson learned – self identify as having a disability. Employers are required by law to ask that, and depression and anxiety are considered disabilities for it. Get it on record so you have a stronger legal case if they do fuck you over.
The fact that it took public outcry for them to begrudgingly fire an admin who was using reddit as their own personal pedophilic hunting ground is a coincidence, I’m sure.