What is the name of your state? Wisconsin.
I work in a distribution warehouse. The family owned parent company owns three different businesses under the original name. The warehouse is the original business and employs approx 200 employees (pickers, dock loaders, drivers) . According to our profit sharing and 401k plan statement there are approx 450 participants. We employees all share one HR.
The Company is considered essential so it remains open, but under diminished capacity. I was laid off immediately because of my position (administrative), but my former co-workers (the pickers) were not. Here is the situation as I best get it:
Evers shut Wisconsin down on March 17 due to COVID19. Business screeched to a halt and some employees (pickers) elected to stay home to comply with the orders for health reasons. Many took two weeks off without pay. I'm guessing about a quarter of them. Two weeks later, things are still dire, so, okay, my friend, uses all their remaining sick and vacation days.
Today is two more weeks later. We are still under Stay At Home advisement and my friend doesn't want to un-do their quarantine, but still has to eat. Those safety nets, we all strive for, go very quickly, we are learning.
The Company continues to carry our health insurance: we will owe them once we return to work (me, laid off – and them,voluntarily laid off ). We understand unemployment and FMLA are very two different things but it seems like right now, they are intertwined. We are out of ideas. Is this considered exigent circumstances for FLMA, per chance?
To top it all off, we never got our safety bonus, usually paid in February or our profit sharing check which is usually paid in March (after their fiscal year ends in February). This one is affects me too.
Unemployment or Short Term Disability an option? Thanks for any insight.
I work in a distribution warehouse. The family owned parent company owns three different businesses under the original name. The warehouse is the original business and employs approx 200 employees (pickers, dock loaders, drivers) . According to our profit sharing and 401k plan statement there are approx 450 participants. We employees all share one HR.
The Company is considered essential so it remains open, but under diminished capacity. I was laid off immediately because of my position (administrative), but my former co-workers (the pickers) were not. Here is the situation as I best get it:
Evers shut Wisconsin down on March 17 due to COVID19. Business screeched to a halt and some employees (pickers) elected to stay home to comply with the orders for health reasons. Many took two weeks off without pay. I'm guessing about a quarter of them. Two weeks later, things are still dire, so, okay, my friend, uses all their remaining sick and vacation days.
Today is two more weeks later. We are still under Stay At Home advisement and my friend doesn't want to un-do their quarantine, but still has to eat. Those safety nets, we all strive for, go very quickly, we are learning.
The Company continues to carry our health insurance: we will owe them once we return to work (me, laid off – and them,voluntarily laid off ). We understand unemployment and FMLA are very two different things but it seems like right now, they are intertwined. We are out of ideas. Is this considered exigent circumstances for FLMA, per chance?
To top it all off, we never got our safety bonus, usually paid in February or our profit sharing check which is usually paid in March (after their fiscal year ends in February). This one is affects me too.
Unemployment or Short Term Disability an option? Thanks for any insight.
