by Kelly
(Walnut, ca)
Hi, I live in California. I have been working for this company for 8 months (before then i was working for a company for 10 years). I have 3 kids, 2 of the three kids are 6 years old and the other just turned 1. I had a close friend of the family watch my baby since he was 3 months old,the same lady took care of my 6year old when she was a baby. Well my childcare provider had a tragic accident happen in her family. Her dad died, so she left the country. I was left with no childcare. My employer worked with me as much as possible, they let me work shorter hours because my sister was able to watch my baby for 1 week but I had to be home by 1pm because she had to go to work. They also allowed me to take days off without any attendance penalty to me. I exausted all my options as far as signing my baby up for childcare,and asking family members to arrange their school and work schedule so that I may go to work.He is still on a waiting list for all Los Angeles county area state childcare agencies.So I asked if i may take a leave of absence until my childcare provider returned. Being that I have only been employed with the company for 8 months i didn't qualify to take a leave of absence, so it was up to the manager to let me take a 30 day leave and I did get approved by the manager. 2 weeks into my leave my childcare provider's daughter called me to let me know she was not coming back (at least any time soon)now her mother was really sick and also close to death. I kept in touch with my employers the whole time I was on leave updateding them with
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