We're all healthcare professionals, aren't we? Okay, except for the beancounters, I mean. Which means we come to work, sick or not. Personally, I hated going back to designated sick days--PTO was the best incentive to make it in no matter what...that way I could tack on a few extra days to a vacation that otherwise wouldn't be there. For Christus it was a good deal, they had less unplanned absences, which meant better staffing effiency.
Retrogressing to sick days opened the gates to people taking un-planned-for absences, rather than scheduling time off. Essent's new policy is slap in the face to anyone with children, an ill spouse, or chronic conditions which keep them from building up a surplus of sick days.
The policy (amended this month) is that in order to be paid for a sick day you have to have forty hours of sick time accrued at the time of the call in. To be paid on the second day if you are sick you have to have twenty hours accrued. So, if you have an extended period of illness, come back to work, and have a relapse--you won't get paid for the first day if you don't have a week's sick time banked! If you didn't have at least half a week, you wouldn't get paid for two.
I have plenty, but I know several people that this would knock to their knees. I would venture to say that the northeast doesn't have to put up with arbitrary B.S. like this--because of the union contract. I can feel myself drawn to the dark side....
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