I am curious to hear what your facility/unit requires of you, if anything, if you must call out on a weekend shift?
Recently our unit expanded our make-up requirement from Friday night (the 1830-0700 shift) to Sunday night shift (1830-0700 Monday morning) to Friday day (0700-1830) to Monday night (1830-0700) claiming that Fridays and Mondays now count as weekends.
I had thought the previous call-out/make-up policy was a bit unfair as those who worked during the day shifts were only liable to make up two shifts while the night shift staff was liable for 3 shifts. When I asked my manager about it at the time her answer basically was "the night shift gets paid enough so bascially they can suck it up" (I'm paraphrasing a little bit but that was the jist).
About 6 months ago they changed (unit leadership) it to the new policy and slipped it into the new scheduling guidlelines, having staff sign to verify they had received them. Unfortunately, many staff members did not realize what exactly had changed in that one paragraph of the three or four page document.
So, we are now culpable to make up a 'weekend shift' if we call out for any of our shifts that fall on these four days out of the week! We do NOT make up a Friday for a Friday...basically, your make up shift is on the next schedule in which you make up a shift on ANY of these four days.
To top it off, I am a member of the scheduling committee and sometimes catch a little bit of flack from co-workers for their schedules, particularly their make-up shifts. Keep in mind, a) My manager has final say over the schedule so she can change anything she wants on it after we turn it into her. and b)we have about a 50% chance of actually receiving the list of make-ups from our manager on time so my hands are usually tied anyway.
Also, with the anticipated number of call outs expected this fall, HR has sent out a mass email that staff will not be disciplined according to the absenteeism policy for calling out for influenza-like-illness (we are required to stay out for a minimum of 7 days) but I'm curious to see how our manager handles absences regarding the make-up policy.
