Can you be fired for...?

My friend is worried about losing her job and I am not sure what to tell her to make her feel better or give her good advice...

Her husband needed emergency surgery on his spinal cord. She was hired by her company last April. She's had a successful probation period and no "bad" marks against her however in October she suffered from Strep Throat and was out of work for a week, she did go in to work after 2 days out only to be sent home by her manager. Told to get better and then come back. Anyway...

She has no time being the end of the year and used an emergency day to take him home from the hospital. Now she's found out that he will need her to be home for a little while. Maybe a week. She receives 2 weeks vacation time at the beginning of the year. If she were to ask her manager for the 2nd 3rd and 4th off as vacation time, can she be in any danger of losing her job? Of course, she'll pick taking care of hubby but is there a chance she'd lose her job over this?

I didn't think she could be fired, but I wasn't sure because if you have off on the 1st, would you be able to begin vacation on the 2nd? Did that make sense?

of course not. She has vacation available, so she can take it.

Under FMLA (Family Medical leave Act), she cannot be fired.

Oops, sorry, she needs 12 months of service before the law kicks in.

There is no law that says that you can't ask for time off to your boss. However, they don't have to give you the time off. My suggestion to you is if you used up all your personal days and vacation days, she would have to say shes sick in order to take off any more time. I think that the best thing to do is to maybe she can hire and nurse or somethign to take care of him.

possibly, but yeah you know stuff happens so have her plead her case to her manager and so forth it should help.