My employer is discriminating against me.

My employer is self insured and absolutely will not cover WLS under any circumstances. I will be self pay. My boss has agreed to approve my request for sick leave to cover my time off. I have hundreds of hours saved. Yesterday, I found out that someone in our employers benefits office is monitoring all employees who are obese in case they have this surgery. They want to make sure that if employees do have the surgery, that they don't get paid while they are off. I do not know if this is official or if it is being done by this individual for her own reasons. She has already told me that she considers this surgery to be cosmetic. It is bad enough that I have to pay for this myself but I think it is incredibly unfair that I also will not get paid for the time off. I feel like there is nothing I can do about this but at the same time, I do not want anything to interfere with getting the surgery.

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