[MRM]

It's more irking than it is a legal issue. There is no federal marital status protection. Marital status protection exists in some states, but it's usually designed to protect same sex couples.

Tell your management that it's a basic fairness issue that the management should deal with on a "team" basis. Everyone on the team gives and takes a little. No one should be asked to carry more than their share of the load. If you can pick up something for the team today and get cut some slack later it would work out. The trick is that management has to remember to give you the slack later that makes it work out.