I think the 2 weeks sick time and unlimited unpaid sick time off were still in effect, not to mention a full day off probably isn't required.

Not to say these policies are grand or the working conditions are anywhere near reasonable just that the claim from the lawsuit it was a disability violation seems like it will be difficult to argue vs just being a shitty place to work.

My current job, I started with 0 hrs sick time and accumulate 1.67hrs per pay period (2x/mo). I’m fortunate that I work in a cool place and they would have fronted me the day off if I needed it.

Someone with diagnosed IBS could get a note in an email exchange with their primary physician.

Sure, if pre-employment, one had the privilege of having a primary physician.

As someone with a pretty good job in software, I don't have a primary physician, because what's "in network" changes every time I switch companies.

Indeed, this is one of the reasons I chose to pass on a full time offer recently and negotiated to work under contract instead. I get to keep the same healthcare provider.

A diagnosis of IBS requires a physician, right? It’s surprising that a letter wasn’t obtained on diagnosis in the first place.

Any time my doctor says something affects my work, I ask her for a letter in my medical record and keep a copy for myself.

This seems pretty straightforward and odd that a letter didn’t exist in the first place.

Oh they had a primary physician?

Someone diagnosed them with IBS

Does not require a physician to diagnose. Diagnosis is based on casual observation and the cause as yet is unknown.

A one-hour trip to urgent care, or even an email or phone call to the doctor's office likely would've handled this.

Going to urgent care to get a routine doctor's note for a non-urgent situation wouldn't be covered by insurance, would it?

Walk-in clinics are affordable and frequently faster than urgent care.

IBS is a diagnosis of last resort. You don't get that from a walk-in clinic, you get that from a months- or years-long quest to eliminate every possible cause, before your doctor throws up their hands and calls it IBS.

Counterpoint: someone I know personally got that diagnosis from a single doctor's visit, so this isn't exactly a hard rule.

Yeah, true. Different doctors have different standards, and there are significant regional differences in standards of care. I've had several walk-in clinics tell me that I need an established GP to deal with certain issues.

I thought walk in clinics were exactly urgent care.

Where are these quick, affordable, walk-in GI specialist clinics you speak of?

If you've been suffering acute IBS for months and can't get a regular doctor's appointment in that time, why would that not be considered a case for urgent care?

This whole store lacks enough detail to know exactly what's going on, however, so we're all going to project our biases on it. If you're anti-Amazon you're going to project your assumptions of unfair business practices. If you're skeptical of that position you're going to project your skepticism into the unknowns of the story. Really there aren't enough facts here to know if this is Amazon firing an underperforming employee who is lying about a health condition, or failing to accommodate an employee with a legitimate health problem.