Company Picnic and employees on Lay-Off
March22Collector
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I'm interested to see if anyone else has come across this situation. Would you invite employees who are on Lay-Off to the annual company picnic? Are there any laws about this sort of situation? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. Eric
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Regarding having the picnic now, is the whole thing company funded? We have company events where very little is sponsored by the company, perhaps it is just having the building open later in the evening to we can have a potluck, or meet at the park and they provide sodas/water only and we provide food. A picnic can be sponsored for very little money (we are a smaller employer 75) and still give the employees a sense of team and good welfare.
>invited to the company picnic! If they are too ill to come to work,
>they should be too ill to attend a picnic I would think.
At this year's picnic, attendees included: employee on 2nd week of FMLA caring for child recovering from surgery (brought her child too); employee on comp from accident caused by company safety hazard and an employee who is caring for his wife who has end stage renal failure (she came too). Surprisingly enough, they were all able to operate a plastic fork and participate in our fishing rodeo from the bank. They're just excused from work, not life.