Call-off policy

We have the same policy. You must call off greater than 2 hours before your shift.

However, there are trolls that don't do this. They wake up at 6am and are ill. We had a coworker call from the parking garage too sick to make it to work, two minutes prior to her shift starting.

To my knowledge my facility doesn't enforce the policy through verbal or written warnings.

1981 We have a new policy which states you cannot be cancelled only put on call ($1.50/hr woo hoo) so you have to be available for 12 hours. Recently so many PRN people have complained that if they had been cancelled they could have worked elsewhere that day so now the PRN people have a choice of being cancelled or on-call. Full and Part-time have no option other than to take call and make that big money. The call rate was $1.50/hr when I started there in 1981. That definately is peanuts. What is your on call rate?

Our policy states that day shift nurses must call at least 1 hour before their shift. I guess the thinking there was you might go to bed feeling fine but wake up sick. The other 2 shifts are supposed to call out at least 2 hours before their shift. We dread the words "supervisor pick up 881" when it's around 1 o'clock because it's usually a call out.
People who call out don't have to make up the time. We only have one or two people on our per diem list to call in if there are call outs.
The policy says no more than 3 absenses in a 3 month period. Chronic offenders are counselled. They all know the system..no one ever gets to the 3rd and final counselling because they keep all the dates in mind.
So...what do you do when you're sick? Come to work and share your germs and put everyone at risk for catching what you've got, or stay home knowing your co-workers will be working short??

Our policy states that an employee must call off 3 hours prior to the start of a shift. If someone called off on a week-end they were to make up the hours on another week-end when we were short but this created overtime and some employees did it on purpose to get the overtime. So that piece of the policy disappeared. We were getting massive call offs for one day illnesses. They decreased when employees were suspended and terminated for not following the call-0ff policy. We can have 7 call offs a year before termination. If you are off for 3 days with the same illness that is only counted as one call-off. I think 7 call -off's is generous. I have called off one time in in the past 3 years. We also saw a pattern with employees that picked up overtime then at the end of the week they suddenly were sick.

That would be the day when I would feel compelled to make up a shift for whoever covered for me. Sick is sick. An employee should never go to work sick, even if they feel they can make it, it's selfish to subject co-workers to the germs.

I personally would not do it and would be upset if my co-worker came to work sick. I personally would not make up the shift whether or not I wanted to just to make a statement.

P.S. IMO - 12 hours notice is more than generous!

Policy means squat. We seem to need staff too much to fire the chronic callers. Consequences mean nothing.

Our policy is at least 4 hours before the shift change. Doesn't mean they do it. I can't begin to count the # of times I would field a call off about 1/2 an hour before the shift starts.......

Suebird