How to call in sick?

[rotlex]

I've never heard of a job where you are "entitled" to sick days!
Comparing different employees sickness records was always one of the ways you would use to help determine who to let go in a "Reduction In Force" process.

ford framily

This may be with some companies, or maybe in the past, but not anymore. We get 7 sick days per year. You either use them, or lose them. We are told point blank it has absolutely no, nor can it, weight in anything regarding performance, layoffs, or whatever. Heck, even my boss uses every sick day, every year.

 

[tvguy]

We're entitled to sick days and the use or non-use of them are never considered in lay-offs. We even get a lecture by HR to use them and don't forget them.

Excessive sick time certainly can be a grounds for termination.

Can't address what HR might say, that department was the first eliminated 3 years ago at the company and my wifes company when the economy tanked.

I do know however under HIPPA that all you have do to is call and say you are sick, it's illegal for an employer to ask what's wrong with you. And many employers do want a note from a Doctor affirming you are sick if you use more than 5 consecutive days, but that's only because they will shift you from sick leave to short term disability on the 6th consecutive day.

 

[aprilgail2]

I've never heard of a job where you are "entitled" to sick days!
Comparing different employees sickness records was always one of the ways you would use to help determine who to let go in a "Reduction In Force" process.

ford framily

That may be true where you work but where I work its last in first out-- they would not be laying off the guy who has 20 years that took off 20 sick days and keeping the guy who had 4 years and never took off----the guy that would be laid off would be the junior guy with four years!