Final Word on Leave situation: Unpaid

Our leave is unpaid. That’s what our company has done with other adoptive families. Our H.R. rep even called home office, and that is the procedure. Sick time is only available to an employee that has an illness or cannot work; adoption doesn’t qualify to be paid for sick time. Under FMLA, we do have our 12 weeks leave, but it is unpaid.

So…I emailed my boss to see if it would be worth it to research all the different companies that pay their employees for their adoption leave out of their sick time. The point may be moot because in 2009 they’re starting a much better “Paid Time off” system that rolls sick, vacation, and personal time together. If that new system had been in place, I would have had almost a month of paid time off to use with our baby. I’ll go with what my boss says. If he thinks it would be like beating a dead horse, I’ll just not worry about it. I would like to see if I can try and get it changed as there are at least 2 people from work that I know of that are wanting to adopt this year.

I’ll have to figure out how to do my research to see what companies pay for adoption leave out of an employee’s sick time bank…

On the baby front, he is doing well! Our doctor, who is the sweetest guy EVER, said that Joshua is “perfect.” Well, we knew that! He gained 9 ounces and 1/2 inch since his birthday! Wow! I think he gets annoyed with me sometimes because I keep kissing him…his cheeks are just TOO cute!

Check out on the top right…there is a flickr link to photos of Joshua. I am not the most computer savvy, so I don’t add photos to my blog as much as my hubby does. At least you can get your Joshua fix through Flickr!

Posted by: DramaQueen | 04-25-2008 | 06:04 AM
Posted in: job | Life as Mom