Call Offs

[nurseangel78]

Our new DON at a LTC facility I work at just announced to the staff a couple of days ago about a new policy she has in place. She states that if you call off sick for any reason whatsoever, even if you have a doctor's excuse, that you have to call another employee to get coverage for the shift you are suppose to work and if no one covers your shift or you don't come in to work then you get wrote up, 3 write ups and your gone. A lot of people are furious where I work about this, including me. In the employee handbook, it states that you need to call in 2 hours or more before you are scheduled to work, and after 2 absences a doctor's note is needed. What is the policy where you work?

Also, how do you prioritize family and work. She states that this facility and the patients should come first? Do you put your patients 1st, then your family 2nd?

[meownsmile, BSN, RN]

I dont think id want to work for a facility that expected me to put my family 2nd to anything. And to think they are in charge of caring for others FAMILY members.

I agree,, any facility has no legal leg to give out other workers home phone numbers. Get out,, dont look back. The DON will find herself running that place alright,, by herself.

[pitto]

Please tell me this is a joke. In Australia this type of harassment/bullying is unlawful and I've never experienced it in 25 years of work. If you are sick, you are sick, if you've run out of sick days without a doctor's certificate than you are still sick but you may not get paid if you don't have one. Surely there are industrial relations laws to protect those workers who are legitmately sick. :angryfire :angryfire

[mugwump]

Couple bits of advise, look up FMLA as long as your companay has more than 50 employees as long as it is a qualified FMLA event (incapacitated for 3 or more days "not able to attend work or school" gone to the doctor 2 or more times or for treatment "prescription" they can't fire you without facing heftly fines like it's against the law and lawsuits.

Now the not so nice part of me says next time you have the stomach flu go throw up on her and when she gets mad say "sorry couldn't find someone to work for me" :chuckle

[mugwump]

Hey let us know if her "policy" changes granted I'm sure she can't make a "policy" without HR I forgot to say you could check with them.

[boulergirl, CNA]

My facility just started this policy, too. Yet another reason to get me moving out the door!