I am a barista and have worked at my store for about a year. I am pregnant and obviously submitted for maternity leave. I have submitted all I needed to submit, talked to everyone I have needed to talk to, and even verified everything with Sedgwick. They do not officially approve your leave until the start date apparently, but they tell your SM and basically say “don’t schedule them past this point but the leave is still pending.” My leave is scheduled to start in a few weeks. My SM knows this. I told her when I was planning on starting my leave before I even applied for leave. Sedgwick did contact her and told her when my leave would start and be approved. I checked my schedule for that week to ensure I wouldn’t be scheduled for after my leave started because that schedule just got posted and sure enough, I am scheduled the day of and every day during that week after my leave is supposed to start. I reminded my SM via text (she doesn’t like phone calls and she and I almost never work overlapping times) after seeing that I was scheduled that my leave is supposed to start that day and I did not plan on working those days. I even offered to help find coverage since we’re still a couple weeks out and I know of some people who would gladly take my shifts if I gave them enough notice. She has ignored me but I am still on the schedule. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. My leave will be approved that day, so I feel like if I just don’t show up, I won’t/can’t get fired, right? But it’s just so unnecessarily stressful for it to be this way. I was sure she wouldn’t schedule me after my leave was scheduled to start because we had talked about it already and she wrote it all down. But apparently, that is not how it went. We are also notoriously short staffed during the shifts I work and the people who do work the shifts I work are often people that need me to kind of be carried through them (I’m a trainer as well and to say that my store is mostly new people would be an understatement). I don’t want to screw over the people I work with as I do genuinely enjoy a lot of my coworkers, but I am not going to show up on my leave especially when my store is 45 minutes away from the hospital. Like that just seems like a terrible idea.