Please stay home when sick

[debilorrah]

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I think the Flu qualifies for The Family and Medical Leave Act

Covered employers must grant an eligible employee up to a total of 12 workweeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period for one or more of the following reasons:

to care for an immediate family member (spouse, child, or parent) with a serious health condition; or
to take medical leave when the employee is unable to work because of a serious health condition.

http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/fmla/index.htm

ONLY if they employ 50 or more employees. Personally, I feel the FLMA should cover everyone!

 

[riftnreef]

I hate to admit it, but I'm one of those parents who send their kids to school sick. My son missed three days of school last year and we had a truancy officer on our door step becuase it was during "count" week...really, you want to threaten me with legal action because my kid is sick...well, guess what...if they want him home, they can call me to come and get him. I know, its petty, but the school irritates me some times.

As for comming to work sick...my boss is a touch on the germaphobic side, so if I so much sniffle, she makes me leave. I have a couple hundred hours of sick time to burn so its no big deal...it is sad that not every one has that from their employer.

 

[mom'sfolly]

ARRRGGGGHHHHHHH

Most school handbooks say inform the school if your child is going to be out of school. This can take the form of a call, e-mail or note, and it takes about 30 seconds.

The truancy officer can't do anything if your kid is sick. They are just doing their job. Why does this make it okay for you to be petty about infecting other people's children? If you have a couple of hundred hours of sick time, take it, spend it with your child, play games, watch movies, but keep him at home. It is not the school you hurt by sending the kid sick, it is all your friends and peers.

Your kid gets the flu or strep; some other kid gets to go to the hospital or gets rheumatic fever. Keep your sick kid at home for everyone else's sake.

 

[claud]

I didn't read all the posts but I know why people go to work sick.

I work for a large health care facility and the rules were a little different with the swine flu this year. However, we have "sick days" but you cannot use them unless it's something that FMLA would cover.
If you call in 5 days in a year you lose your raise that year - doesn't matter if you have the swine flu or whatever.
You are NOT allowed to call in sick if your children have the swine flu or whatever - you are to have alternate arrangements for sick children(anyone want to volunteer to keep my kid with swine flu?).

So the message generally is...don't come to work sick...but don't call in either.

 

[horsejody]

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Wow, that's kind of extreme about the truant officer. Did you call the school and tell them he was sick? When my kids were younger, the school wouldn't worry as long as you called and told them they were going to be absent.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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Completely, totally insane.

 

[ChicknJ]

yup yup. same as above, ridiculous if you work in health care and can't call in

 

[Chicksdigit]

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Last year The Elementary school (Parent association) gave Bicycles to 10 or 12 kids tht had perfect attendance for the whole year......... but stay home if you are sick......

Kind of a mixed signal I think.

Oh well, My girls have really good bikes anyway.

so....reward kids for being healthy and the opposite of that is what,
kids that are sick are not worthy?

 

[claud]

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I think the Flu qualifies for The Family and Medical Leave Act

Covered employers must grant an eligible employee up to a total of 12 workweeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period for one or more of the following reasons:

to care for an immediate family member (spouse, child, or parent) with a serious health condition; or
to take medical leave when the employee is unable to work because of a serious health condition.

http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/fmla/index.htm

ONLY if they employ 50 or more employees. Personally, I feel the FLMA should cover everyone!

FMLA only covers H1N1 under certain conditions - like hospitalization or if you are out more than 3 consecutive days I think - the 1st 3 days are dings in your employment record and no sick pay. Plain old swine flu won't cut it.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Y'all are simply not going to BELIEVE this story!

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6349561/

The school board’s policy states “students must be present for a minimum of 91 percent of all class meetings to receive credit for a course. If absences from class exceed four per nine weeks, eight per semester or 16 per year, the maximum grade a student may receive for the grading period is F or 69, regardless of the reasons for the absences.”

What happened to the "exception to the rule" rule?

No wonder public school kids are like carrier pigeons for germs!!!!!