I have received a new job offer (increased pay and benefits) with my same company. Problem - the start date in the offer letter is 99% likely to fall after I leave office for maternity leave (which is covered under STD policy) - by a matter of weeks. My STD policy states all pay/benefits reflected during STD are those in effect the day previous to the first day of disability leave. I have asked my employer to provide me a new offer letter with an immediate start date such that 1) my job is not in limbo during STD and 2) that I start receiving the benefits of my new position even while I am on leave. Otherwise, the way I read the STD policy is that while I have the job offer in writing, if I take 6 weeks post baby delivery of STD plus FMLA, my new job will not take effect until I return to work, which is a total of about 3 months after the baby is born. If this is true, this feels like discrimination to me as we all know I am heading out for maternity leave very shortly.
My HR department does not seem willing to change the start date to immediate, rather giving me words of assurance that I will be "OK." What is that supposed to mean. I feel like it is HR's way of sort of ignoring me (the problem) until I go out on leave and then it is too late and payroll will not execute increases in salary (at least that is the way I read the STD policy). When I spoke HR, she played dumb, saying she never dealt with this type of situation, which I find tremendously difficult to believe.
Question: am I being too aggressive asking for this new immediate start date? The only alternative I can think of is to write in the offer letter, my new job will take effect regardless of if I am on maternity leave. I don't like that statement because I work for a large company and I think that statement in the offer letter is even less likely that getting the start date changed.
Otherwise I lose out on several months of new pay and potentially have my job in limbo as technically I will not have started the new job bc I will be out on leave.
What are my options? Thank you.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
My HR department does not seem willing to change the start date to immediate, rather giving me words of assurance that I will be "OK." What is that supposed to mean. I feel like it is HR's way of sort of ignoring me (the problem) until I go out on leave and then it is too late and payroll will not execute increases in salary (at least that is the way I read the STD policy). When I spoke HR, she played dumb, saying she never dealt with this type of situation, which I find tremendously difficult to believe.
Question: am I being too aggressive asking for this new immediate start date? The only alternative I can think of is to write in the offer letter, my new job will take effect regardless of if I am on maternity leave. I don't like that statement because I work for a large company and I think that statement in the offer letter is even less likely that getting the start date changed.
Otherwise I lose out on several months of new pay and potentially have my job in limbo as technically I will not have started the new job bc I will be out on leave.
What are my options? Thank you.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?