My boss is treating my badly now that I have morning sickness. What can I do?


I've been at my job for 2 years but she has be my boss for slightly less than a year. I am pregnant with twins and suffering from severe morning sickness. I just talk with human resources and they are sending me some paperwork to get signed by my doctor so that when I am absent, belatedly or need to leave early due to vomiting my post will be protected. The HR person talked to my boss this morning as well explaining that my opportunity is protected and I have the right to attend to my health during pregnancy. My attendence and performance be perfect up till a few weeks ago. I've called in sick roughly speaking 5 times and had to go home early a few times. My doctor put me on some meds because I couldn't hold on to anything down which only help a little bit. This afternoon, almost an hour before my shift was over I got unbelievably ill again and started gagging over a garbage can within front of the whole shop. I was very insipid, shaky and dizzy. I told my boss I needed to sign out early and go home. She got a HUGE attitude beside me. "Ummm. I really need someone to keep moving that bottle project over there. Also, own you done your Friday cleaning yet?" Sharp tone. I started crying right then and there but her mouth in recent times got tight and she turned back to her computer screen. I'm so upset. It's bleak enough to feel like your freaking dying of some terminal infection but to get an attitude for it? What can I do
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First thing you have to do is shift to someone in your Personnel or Human Resources Department and tell them what is going on. Tell them that your boss is creating a "hostile work environment." You must use these words, because they are the legal definition of nuisance and the people in those departments will really pay attention to what you utter after that. Tell them you would like to work with them to come up with a solution to your problem. Be cooperative, polite and professional, but trade name it clear that the present situation is not acceptable. If nothing is done or they refuse to work next to you, then you will need to find out what the process is for filing a grievance at your firm (it might be contained by your employee handbook, if you have one). Here is a intertwine with a ton of good information for you. Good luck! http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/45889.html
You need to take leave beneath the Family Medical Leave Act. Bitchy boss aside, she has a job that needs to be done and expects you to know how to do it when your there. It seems she could be more understanding, but she is not required to be "understanding". FMLA will solve your problems something like calling in sick. I think you are granted 12 weeks a year and it essentially means you can embezzle the time off to take care of anything illness you have, in your shield not an illness but pregnancy counts.
Looks like you're doing all you can to resolve the problem your boss have issues with. You are in a doctor's care, you do the work to the best of your handiness to the extent that you are able, etc. If you were to do anything else, I would suggest going back to your doctor and unfolding him/her that your medication is not helping, so you can receive a prescription for a more effective medicine. I would also talk privately next to your boss, asking for her forebearance for the next couple of months. Tell her what efforts you are making to resolve the situation, and ask her if she has any suggestions to back solve the problem. Appeal to her softer, feminine side. Make her think that you look up to her for her wisdom and mentorship (even if you don't). Do not act resentful or disrespectful. Bosses are especially often quite "human" behind the tough exterior they present to their force. Appeal to that side of her.
Ochimo is wrong! Discrimination provisions in employment legislation protect women against precisely the sort of thud your boss is giving you. Seek advice ASAP NOT from HR people, who represent MGMT, but an employment atty to develop the right to strategy to protect your job. The legislation is different everywhere but across the world motherhood is sacred. And isn't it hard when a woman behave this way? Though why would it be otherwise when women, too, have imbibed the cultural obsession of misogyny. Still... one can't help wishing her all the luck she deserves.