Anonymous wrote:Be careful. As a federal employee on sick leave, you are exactly that. On SICK LEAVE. If you use your leave to go on interviews, you jeopardize that status and if you announce during your leave you obtained another position and it is discovered that you used sick leave to do so, you can be required to pay back sick leave and you can be removed from the federal service for abuse of sick leave, falsification of leave, or other charges.
I don't think most women who have just given birth are doing this 5 weeks post partum.
I plan on starting around week 6 to apply from home, then more aggressively the closer to I get to the end of my leave. And since you can only use 6 weeks of sick leave, the rest of my annual/unpaid leave...so it's really none of their business what I do, especially since I'm not using FMLA protected status.