My Lowes store has refused several employees Extended Paid leave offered by Marvin, One person is 74 years old! because they did not qualify?
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The store management doesn’t refuse or deny it, they just submit it, half the time they don’t even need the documentation to do it. Essentially, notifying them just allows them to fill the schedule for your absence and check to make sure others aren’t at risk if you have symptoms or test positive. Now if your manager is too much of a d–k to submit it than that’s a different situation, just have your documentation in order is all I can say.
It's not up to store manager's in any state, anyone over 65 gets 2 weeks end of story, submit via My HR. For the extension of another 2 weeks for an individual over the age of 65 a doctors note stating the person is required to self quarantine with the dates, Teledoc is acceptable. Don't even tell management your submitting until you know its approved if your working for management that cares more about having staff on the floor then losing staff to an illness , whomever you report to will get the notification from My HR in their e-mail. Let me be clear, this is for individuals over 65 without underlying medical conditions I'm writing about. There are many other different circumstances during this. I am currently in a store, outside of NYC, with positive cases, that I continue to work in and have no problem letting this age group stay home / stay safe and made it clear to these individuals when that "murky detailed" e-mail came out about this. I had to go to the CDC link on the e-mail to get the facts....shame on corporate once again.
How on earth did they leave it up to store level management? That is absurd. I use to love working for Lowe's, but the company is trash now and not getting better.
Lowes seems to have a tendency of having unqualified management make decisions that require a license,
Medical decisions, financial advice, legal advice...
Before I quit, I tried talking with my HR manager a few years back. She went on talking down to me saying I can’t afford it and was mad at me for leaving. I looked at her wall and asked how she is qualified to know my finances or what I’m trained to do. I see no securities licenses on your wall. I’d already secured a job with a company that paid for my training and testing for... a securities license. I’m doing very well now. Oh but I could have spent a couple more years wasting my time and energy for a fraction of what I make now.
Lowe's left it up to store managers' discretion BECAUSE they will nitpick and deny legitimate requests. They're like for profit health insurance, of COURSE they're going to arbitrarily deny your claims and fight you every inch on some things, that's their entire business model.