Ok so I am don't have cancer. But my younger brother does. Stage 3 colon with mets to the lever and nods. anyways. I live away from home, about 1300 miles. I have been with my company for almost 10 years, I have accured 40 plus sick days and in a position that if I don't use them by the time I have accured 50 days I will not accuring. I work in a seasonal industry, campus food services where the summers are slow during the months of June and July. This morning I had a meeting with my boss to ask about using some of this sick time during these months...only 25 days. He knows of my brothers condition.
anyways, he told me that it was a double edged sword. that he needed to be consistant to all the groups of people. He manages salary employees, union employees, and non-union employees. He stated that I would need to fill out FLMA Paperwork. That would be fine if I qualified, but I don't. According to all the reading have completed, brothers don't qualify as immediate family.
What do you do? I can't find a loop hole. Except to make me his perminate caregiver, and if he did that then he was loose his insurance. It makes me so angry and hurt as an employee that this isn't something we can work out. I have given 10 years of my life to them.