Fed - can I use LWOP a few hours each week?

[Anonymous]

When I asked this question, I was told no. I need to use sick leave or annual leave. If you don't have enough leave, you can go into the negative at my agency, but there's a limit to that. You can also have someone else donate their leave to you.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the boss in our agency. I was approved and basically did a part time schedule for a few months instead of going part time. I didn't mention a word to anyone but my boss, and I think that's the reason it worked. If you have a boss who wants to go to HR for everything, you will probably be out of luck. (Timesheet reflected my LWOP and time out of the office accurately, so I don't feel bad at all. If someone wanted to follow up on this issue, they could have.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the boss in our agency. I was approved and basically did a part time schedule for a few months instead of going part time. I didn't mention a word to anyone but my boss, and I think that's the reason it worked. If you have a boss who wants to go to HR for everything, you will probably be out of luck. (Timesheet reflected my LWOP and time out of the office accurately, so I don't feel bad at all. If someone wanted to follow up on this issue, they could have.)

Also, what I mentioned above was not for the transition from maternity leave. However, I did the same thing for 6 months after each child. Those were public knowledge and no one cared. I did not invoke FMLA in any of these cases.

[Anonymous]

No.

You can't invoke FMLA because it doesn't sound like you personally have a serious health issue.

You can't use leave to change your schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pay for daycare, cheap-o. I say this as a female fed supervisor with two young kids. Everyone I know who has daycare issues is trying to cheap out on child care. I would absolutely not approve your request.

+1 It's women like you that give other women a bad rep in the workplace, OP! You're making your childcare issues everyone else's problem now.

[Anonymous]

How do you all know it’s a child? OP could be caring for an aging parent. And if that aging parent has a serious health condition and OPmis the primary care provider, he or she could invoke FMLA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

You can't invoke FMLA because it doesn't sound like you personally have a serious health issue.

You can't use leave to change your schedule.

You can use Fmla to care for an sick parent.

[Anonymous]

I was able to work fewer hours for a time - up to a year after the birth of my second kid. I think I was working 32 hours a week. My agency was fine with it. It really helped me for a time. It wasn't FMLA, but LWOP.

I didn't have the health insurance on my paycheck, so that didn't matter to us.

[Anonymous]

I've used LWOP during pregnancy and post-pregnancy (sometimes up to 10-15 hours a week), essentially working a part time schedule as needed and saving leave

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've used LWOP during pregnancy and post-pregnancy (sometimes up to 10-15 hours a week), essentially working a part time schedule as needed and saving leave

You are so so lucky. I had to work up until 41weeks 5 days (when I was induced) because there wasn't medically anything wrong with me to take sick leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay for daycare, cheap-o. I say this as a female fed supervisor with two young kids. Everyone I know who has daycare issues is trying to cheap out on child care. I would absolutely not approve your request.

+1 It's women like you that give other women a bad rep in the workplace, OP! You're making your childcare issues everyone else's problem now.

I actually don't have childcare issues, I do have issues with other female (or male) employees who can't get their s*it together regarding childcare, and maintain next to no leave because of it, and then they want to take LWOP. Sorry, not happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

You can't invoke FMLA because it doesn't sound like you personally have a serious health issue.

You can't use leave to change your schedule.

You can use FMLA for a qualifying dependent care issue. Why do people spout out information when they have no idea what they are talking about?

[Anonymous]

This is OP, thanks everybody. I got hold of my agency's policy and I do have to run through my available leave first. That's an option, but not ideal because I do also have children and my own health appointments so I need to manage that (hi nasty manager PP, hope you appreciate my forethought here). The other option is to change jobs to reduce my commute, which is the current plan if we can't work something out. Thanks everybody for the responses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay for daycare, cheap-o. I say this as a female fed supervisor with two young kids. Everyone I know who has daycare issues is trying to cheap out on child care. I would absolutely not approve your request.

+1 It's women like you that give other women a bad rep in the workplace, OP! You're making your childcare issues everyone else's problem now.

I actually don't have childcare issues, I do have issues with other female (or male) employees who can't get their s*it together regarding childcare, and maintain next to no leave because of it, and then they want to take LWOP. Sorry, not happening.

Oh look, women with zero empathy. I’m not surprised your kids are in daycare 50 hours a week and you leave them with total strangers when they are sick. Some people actually care about their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay for daycare, cheap-o. I say this as a female fed supervisor with two young kids. Everyone I know who has daycare issues is trying to cheap out on child care. I would absolutely not approve your request.

+1 It's women like you that give other women a bad rep in the workplace, OP! You're making your childcare issues everyone else's problem now.

I actually don't have childcare issues, I do have issues with other female (or male) employees who can't get their s*it together regarding childcare, and maintain next to no leave because of it, and then they want to take LWOP. Sorry, not happening.

Your childcare may be a-ok but you clearly have reading comprehension issues. The person you're arguing with above was agreeing with you.