Abuse of Sick Leave
Ms_Shepard
27 Posts
Hi All,
I was wondering if I could get some feedback on how you handle abuse of sick leave. I have been with my organization for about a year now, and have noticed frequent abuse of sick leave. We give a generous amount (12 days a year) and it seems that some are using this to supplement their annual leave. My solution would have been to take it away all together, and just simply have "leave" that could be used for anything. Our Sr. VP wants to keep our policies similar to other organizations like ourselves, and all of the other organizations offer sick leave. Sick leave is not paid to the employee upon resignation, as annual leave is, so logically, people want to use their sick leave first.
A chronic abuser of sick leave is our receptionist. She frequently calls in and sometimes, her excuses are lousy, such as her daughter had a tooth-ache, or she schedules a dr. appt. and then calls after the appt and says she was referred somewhere else and wont be in at all, or that on the way in from the dr. appt she was in car accident, etc. Her boss is reluctant to discipline her for these reasons: she is in more than one protected class, the receptionist's former superviser never disciplined her, she has been with the organization over three years, and the fact that there are others that seem to be abusing the policy as well.
And so it goes.
Any feedback is appreciated
I was wondering if I could get some feedback on how you handle abuse of sick leave. I have been with my organization for about a year now, and have noticed frequent abuse of sick leave. We give a generous amount (12 days a year) and it seems that some are using this to supplement their annual leave. My solution would have been to take it away all together, and just simply have "leave" that could be used for anything. Our Sr. VP wants to keep our policies similar to other organizations like ourselves, and all of the other organizations offer sick leave. Sick leave is not paid to the employee upon resignation, as annual leave is, so logically, people want to use their sick leave first.
A chronic abuser of sick leave is our receptionist. She frequently calls in and sometimes, her excuses are lousy, such as her daughter had a tooth-ache, or she schedules a dr. appt. and then calls after the appt and says she was referred somewhere else and wont be in at all, or that on the way in from the dr. appt she was in car accident, etc. Her boss is reluctant to discipline her for these reasons: she is in more than one protected class, the receptionist's former superviser never disciplined her, she has been with the organization over three years, and the fact that there are others that seem to be abusing the policy as well.
And so it goes.
Any feedback is appreciated
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