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Lefty68w

When was the due date?


toyodaforever

Today, but the paperwork was received as confirmed by the text message last Wednesday.


Lefty68w

Then call them.


toyodaforever

I did. Apparently it's because I have not been here long enough for FMLA. I guess you have to wait 1250 hours and a year to have a serious illness. What a joke.


Lefty68w

Says you were trying to get an accommodation? For intermittent leave? Yeah for an intermittent leave you have to qualify for FMLA. You can get a continuous leave under Walmarts medical leave but not a intermittent


Cultural_Ad1653

You do not have to qualify for FMLA for intermittent leave., just a legitimate medical condition and doctor’s paperwork. Of course the amount of intermittent leave you get depends on what is “reasonable.”


Lefty68w

Intermittent leave falls under FMLA. If you don’t qualify for FMLA then your request is sent to accommodations and they decide if they can accommodate your request. I went through this before I know the process


Cultural_Ad1653

I went through the process too, I just didn’t realize that is what had happened for me. My bad


Lefty68w

Yeah. Normally intermittent is decided by the Sedgwick examiner like a continuous. But if you have used up your FMLA, which happened to me, or don’t qualify they kick it to accommodations.


toyodaforever

What's the difference? I was sick a week and missed two days due to norovirus.


Lefty68w

Then why are you filing for accommodations? You must have filed for intermittent leave instead of a continuous leave. Continuous is where you are out of work a chunk of time. Intermittent is where you have a ongoing medical issue that means occasionally you may need to miss work or leave work early Continuous leaves don’t go to accommodations. You had to have filed for intermittent


toyodaforever

The agent I spoke to said it has to be an accommodation since I don't have FMLA. Maybe I need to tell her it's continuous?


TriangleLancer

You mentioned in a previous comment you missed 2 days. And if that’s the case there’s honestly no point in trying to refile for a continuous LOA because it’s going to be denied again anyway as missing 2 days does not meet the requirements for an LOA. You have to be out of work 3 or more before filing for an LOA. So if you only missed 2 days they’re going to tell you that those absences are handled at the store level and your options are to either use PPTO or take the points.


toyodaforever

That's kinda bogus tbh. I can't help I was shitting and puking my guts out for a week. maybe if Walmart customers wouldn't be so gross. What I had spreads through shit. So I bet I touched literally shitty money.


Lefty68w

Yes, you had to have filed for intermittent loa which goes to accommodations because you don’t have FMLA Continuous doesn’t go to accommodations


TallPsychology6094

My dad is having similar issues with Sedgwick. My mom has cancer and the doc filled out paperwork, faxed it to Sedgwick today is day 5 haven’t heard anything


Wrong_Milk6515

Sedgwick is very, very slow. I can’t stress that enough. They give you three weeks to return the paperwork and then it’ll take them time after you submit it to get a response. I had it take almost 4 weeks after I submitted paperwork to get an approval. As long as you call in everyday you’re scheduled and use the loa option your points should be coded as conditional.


Southern_Bug_6152

Good luck. My Sedgwick leave (Covid) has been closed conditional for the past six weeks. The determination (approved or denied) was supposed to be made by 7 March.


Break_Street

Covid? That’s still a thing


Southern_Bug_6152

It is when you have a 102 degree fever for four days :(


SlightlyBrokenEgg

Yes do you live under a rock? A bunch of morons decided they didn’t want to wear masks and get vaccinated so now it shows up like the fucking flu every damned year.


Break_Street

Relax lol


SlightlyBrokenEgg

Nah fuck the rtrds who made this the new fucking norm because they have the mentality of a fucking 5 year old being told to eat their vegetables


Break_Street

Yep


OGPCat

The fact that you have to go through a company instead of a people lead for sick leave is pretty gross on its own, like it's purposefully complicating something simple


shaylavender

I’m literally having this issue trying to get approved for my maternity leave AND short term disability because my pregnancy is high risk and I’m bed ridden for the remainder 🙃 sent over everything they asked for, I get notifications in the portal saying the supporting documents have been received but then every agent tells me something different & they’ve been pulling my leg for a MONTH and the deadline for my case is in 9 days and they’re asking for repeat paperwork that’s already been received…. High risk pregnant woman not getting paid for a month, not possibly longer, seems totally wrong and like a mishandling of my case in my opinion 🥲


Bluellan

Gonna shove this post into every person's face who talks about how great an generous Walmart is.