[rolldat777]

Yes, I'm aware, but I personally am in favor of pressing the issue. Though I don't know the details here, in some cases of first diagnosis there will be hospital admission with 72 hour mandatory holding (with limited communication). Instead, consider if someone had been fired for not communicating after being incapacitated in a severe car crash or for the ensuing months of recovery. What would your advice be in that case? What would the companies response have been? How accommodating would they be in the case of the crash?