Medical abuse.
You all know the story.
I'm taking a medical day because I can't risk getting my time due denied. My time due will likely be denied because we don't have enough employees and people hit the medical and make us even shorter. They hit the medical because they don't want to risk getting their time due denied. So I'm taking a medical day because I can't risk getting my time due denied, either. My time due would likely be...
See the vicious cycle? CPD doesn't have this problem because 1. They have a (**hated**) Medical Section to report to, and 2. Time due is very liberally given. We could start a collection of our "denied" pink slips because there's an overabundance of them. They'd take up more space than suspension notices.
So what's going to happen now that people may have to start bringing in doctor's notes whenever they hit the medical? Is it going to make people go on medical less? Is it going to have any more of an effect than management's previous attempts in all of these years to cut down on medical abuse?
We doubt it.
posted by CPDDispatch @ 3:10 PM
4 Comments:
This happens in CPD a lot. If you don't think it does ask around. Time due may be given out liberally in slow districts but not in the faster ones.
The only problem with cracking down on medical abuse will be the same thing we see on the fire side. People will be coming to work sick because they don't want to go through medical. " Just 1 day, then i'll be off for a couple I figured". These will be the people hackin all over your consoles and spreading the love to you...
Oec feels they don't have to follow the rules. Not their own rules, city, state or federal.
Where does it state that you have to bring in a doctor's note if you take one day off?? If you can find out where, why does this only apply to the grunts on 3rd watch? We get 12 medical days a year, contractual benefit (you know when both city and worker agrees together what is going to be in contract and signs off on it).
When you are seriously ill and that depends on who thinks it's serious, go to personel, so they can mislead you, not offer you FMla, when you do go for it screw up your documentaion, loose it, cancel your health insurance (try being half dead at Walgreens, picking up your prescription to be told you have no insurance and have to pay cash full price on the spot), have you written up for abuse. When you get suspended you can count on progressive discipline while pending previous cr#S for medical abuse, and if you live thru it all, you might come to a conclusion some where 3 yrs down the road, which by then your personel file is fuc* beyond any recognition. But remember we at oec don't have to follow federal law.
Patterns, patterns patterns, we don't want to take a med day in conjuction with, any rdo ( which rotates mind you), any fri/sat/sun,
holiday, or more than 2 tues off within a 6 month time period (I'm not kidding) or you will be suspended.
It's quite obvious that management in all of it's glory has come to the conclusion that if we use our contractual benefit of a medical day there will be a manpower shortage. Let's not hire 200 people we need to make a smooth operation occur.
By that rationale, if no one called in sick, everyone would be able to get their time right? Think about it.
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