State Farm retaliates against employees taking federally protected leave. State Farm tacitly encourages employees to break labor laws and then fires then when they do.
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Btw I just want to thank everyone for sharing their experiences with this. What went down and the about face that occurred has always bothered me. My management completely turned their back on me after my FMLA and never made sense to myself or my peers. It makes me feel a lot better that it wasn’t just me although I wouldn’t wish this experience on anyone else.
I had the same experience exactly one year ago. I found my way to a better opportunity rather than continuing to endure the harassment and being targeted. I had been forced to move to that area because they wanted my skills so badly then when I returned from a Major sickness I believe it was 4 weeks later everything had changed and suddenly I was not meeting expectations and being written up. I was not in a metrics driven or customer service role but I experienced the same treatment being referenced here.
From experience I learned The Open Door Policy was a Trap Door, my wife was terminated after her FMLA due to anxiety issues from a horrible supervisor.
If we had it to do over again, Code of Conduct gets action, and the entire management team is brought to task.
I witnessed this firsthand. Once the employee returns, they first make the environment intolerable. Focusing on every action of the individual who was out on FMLA. Essentially they are targeted in hopes that their lives can be made so unbearable that they’ll leave. In the case I witnessed, the employee just s---ed it up and kept working meeting and exceeding metrics. Later, they were brought in a procedural violation. One which management had endorsed and others on the team employed. This person, the one who took ‘protected’ leave, was fired. He chose not to report thinking his life would be made more miserable. When the place is run like a crime syndicate, you keep your mouth shut.
Some of us were targeted after returning from our leave and given unmanageable circumstances and terminated. Be careful and prepared. Claim Manager is now getting sweetheart lucrative deal.
Not my experience - I was injured once within the past five years and they protected the time, and I had a major illness and was out within the past year. Both times were for multiple months. I followed the process and my time was protected, and I have retained the documentation. In both cases Sedgwick was the administrator and they coordinated with HR. And no, I am not a corporate stooge. The whole damn place is going to hell in a handbasket and I wanted the documents to cover my a-- should the lying weasels try and do something down the road.
How do they retaliate?
This is a company with very well educated criminals in key positions. The only way anything changes with this company is fallout from employee class action lawsuits.
Did you complain to labor department?