Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma

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  jacorrales

  03/19/08 | Report as spam

  sick leave

  Key word: Unpopular. Should this person learn a valued lesson and be more respectful and kind to co-workers, this person would not have found him or herself in this position whereas co-workers would not donate sick time.

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  scjmfamily

  03/19/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma

  I believe that a policy should be a policy that is followed by all. But once you opened the door to allowing donated days you left the company open for this type of situation. You should put in place a policy that fits a little better. If you want maybe you take everyone's left over sick paid time off and use that in a bucket for the next year and have a budget to allow for these types of situations. That way the associates are still helping the associates but it removes the popularity part of it. If the associates are going to help, they are going to help anyone.
  
  

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  adaiyeg

  03/19/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma

  Now the mean employee will be even meaner. To say that it is a popularity contest is right. The employees wouldn't have given their sick time to anyone they liked whether they were mean or not. Sometimes people are just haters for the wrong reasons.

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  compliant1

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  RE: Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma

  It depends on why the subject employee is unpopular. Are they disliked because they are rude, disrespectful, lazy, or unpleasant to work with? If so, then social Darwinism (or Karma) is at work here and you should stay out of it. If the employee is disliked because as a manager, I have put him in the position of making unpopular decisions or enforcing unpopular policies, then perhaps intervention, such as expanding the sick leave available, is appropriate. Life is a popularity contest. To be successful, you must be able to build relationships.

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  MsZeglen

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  Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma

  That type of situation is what FMLA was created for. The business can have legal issues if they are creating a new policy that applies for "popular" people and then a different policy for "unpopular" people.

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  Cenobio

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  RE: Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma

  The organization should implement an anonymous contribution policy. HR should only ask for donations to be made but not disclose who they are for. This would eliminate any "popularity contest", while also maintaining the privacy of the employee. This also maintains the intent of the donation, which is to allow staff that have excess hours to be used by staff that have run out.

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  maryaus

  09/14/08 | Report as spam

  RE: Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma

  My reply as follows: it is a generous gesture to anonymously donate a sick day. I, however, question the method of distribution. Consider pooling the donated sick days annually with a maximum amount based on amount donated in fairness to all.