No Swine Flu Sick Leave For Wal-Mart Slaves! No SURPRISE, Either!
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From: Jennifer Fitzgerald on 9 Nov 2009 16:57 We at Wal-Mart are in reality providing our employees the opportunity to work overtime. More hours. And we don't subscribe to all the Swine Flu propaganda. It's all a fabrication to put money in the pockets of Big Pharma." -- Jennifer Fitzgerald
From: zeez on 11 Nov 2009 20:17 But..but this is capitalism! The system that can do no wrong! This criticism is just more freedom hating commie talk. Those who refuse to work while having swine flu must hate America!
From: sr on 12 Nov 2009 00:51 "zeez" <blinkingblythe01(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:db1c55e0-f8c9-481c-922c-fdf72c593165(a)l2g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > But..but this is capitalism! The system that can do no wrong! This > criticism is just more freedom hating commie talk. Those who refuse to > work while having swine flu must hate America! they can stay home, no pay, just like my working history. work without benefits, but I worked for poor people
From: friesian on 12 Nov 2009 03:21 On Nov 9, 9:23 am, "Dave C." <no...(a)nohow.never> wrote: > > In addition, Wal-Mart begins reprimanding workers after four absences > > of up to three days each over the course of six months. Six absences > > can lead to termination. > According to this policy, an employee would have to be sick 4 times in 6 months to get reprimanded and 6 times to get fired. Honestly, how many business are happy to have somebody who calls in sick at least once a month? I work in a grocery store, and whilw we can earn about a week per year (up to a max of 3 weeks) of sick leave, we do not get sick pay from day one unless we have a full bank of unused sick leave. Otherwise, it starts on day 3. This is to prevent cases of sun flu and last minute forgot to request the day off flu. It is hard to cover shifts last minute, and unlike an office, our work doesn't wait. Also, we are required to get a doctors note if we miss 3 or more days, or we cannot return to work. It seems to me that Walmart's system is nicer than ours, and ours is pretty reasonable. Most people do not sick more than a few days a year. Anybody who has been her a year or more will easily have enough sick leave to cover a week or more absence. Sure, we lose the first 2 days if we have been sick in the last 6 months or so. But that is reasonable. The alternative is people calling in sick, pretending to have the flu, just so that they can go to a party or have a free day off.
From: BigDog1 on 12 Nov 2009 14:43
On Nov 12, 1:21 am, "fries...(a)zoocrewphoto.com" <fries...(a)zoocrewphoto.com> wrote: > On Nov 9, 9:23 am, "Dave C." <no...(a)nohow.never> wrote: > > > > In addition, Wal-Mart begins reprimanding workers after four absences > > > of up to three days each over the course of six months. Six absences > > > can lead to termination. > > According to this policy, an employee would have to be sick 4 times in > 6 months to get reprimanded and 6 times to get fired. Honestly, how > many business are happy to have somebody who calls in sick at least > once a month? > > I work in a grocery store, and whilw we can earn about a week per year > (up to a max of 3 weeks) of sick leave, we do not get sick pay from > day one unless we have a full bank of unused sick leave. Otherwise, it > starts on day 3. This is to prevent cases of sun flu and last minute > forgot to request the day off flu. It is hard to cover shifts last > minute, and unlike an office, our work doesn't wait. > > Also, we are required to get a doctors note if we miss 3 or more days, > or we cannot return to work. > > It seems to me that Walmart's system is nicer than ours, and ours is > pretty reasonable. Most people do not sick more than a few days a > year. Anybody who has been her a year or more will easily have enough > sick leave to cover a week or more absence. Sure, we lose the first 2 > days if we have been sick in the last 6 months or so. But that is > reasonable. The alternative is people calling in sick, pretending to > have the flu, just so that they can go to a party or have a free day > off. My wife works at a bank with a nearly identical sick leave policy. Additionally if someone, even with a full sick leave bank, calls in sick the work day before or after a paid holiday, they lose that holiday pay. |