managing a pregnant woman who is struggling

[Anonymous]

I felt horribly sick for most of my pregnancy and I love my employers for being flexible with me. My manager would actually send me home on day I was turning a bit green. But I did my best to try to get my work done.

So my suggestion is to sit down and have a talk with the woman. Tell her you sympathize, but that the deliverables are not being met. Then try to work out a plan to fix the problem. Does she have a blackberry? Would it help if she did? Can she do some work at home after going home and resting? Is there a place at work she could lie down during lunch - so that she wouldn't have to leave early? Could she come in a few hours on the weekend to make up work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BTW APRILMAYJUNE is starting to drive me bananas.

I agree whenever I see her username I don't even bother reading her posts.

Who knows how many other individual people you would hate if you could actually tell which posts were all written by the same person?

Maybe aprilmayjune will just start posting anonymously... since I never see "the poster who posted at 20:15 really drives me crazy, I won't read what that person says anymore"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can let her know that if she is going to need to keep taking time off work that you two should sit down and put a plan in place. The leave can be counted against her FMLA so if you start documenting it as such she will realize that the time she's taking off now will be shaved off her 12 week FMLA maternity leave. You would also require a doctors note for the "documentation".

This should get her back on track. If she gets the doctors note and understands that she's using up her leave now then you should trust that she is truly sick enough not to work a full day at this point. The time she's taking off now will net out when she's required to return from maternity leave a month early in order to hold her position so technically you won't be loosing out as much.

NO -- FMLA is for serious medical conditions. If this woman has a serious complication of pregnancy such as liver disease or hyperemesis and can document that, she may use her FMLA. But FMLA may not be used for the normal symptoms of pregnancy such as fatigue and nausea.

EXACTLY - That's why I said she needed to provide medical documentation from her physician. If she can't provide that then she can't use FMLA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BTW APRILMAYJUNE is starting to drive me bananas.

I agree whenever I see her username I don't even bother reading her posts.

Who knows how many other individual people you would hate if you could actually tell which posts were all written by the same person?

Maybe aprilmayjune will just start posting anonymously... since I never see "the poster who posted at 20:15 really drives me crazy, I won't read what that person says anymore"

ITA. Why don't you start using a username with your posts.