Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on July 11, 2008 - 9:30am.
As an HR Manager, I am employed by a company that does not offer sick leave to their employees. Upon entering this company, the new employee is entitled to 2 weeks vacation a year. If an employee gets sick, he is forced to use one of the vacation days as sick leave. I am trying to change this. Why?
No sick leave benefits has employees coming into work sick, subjecting healthy employees to their illness and spreading germs. You can bet that there will be other getting sick because one employee was not allowed to take sick leave. No one will take a vacation day as "sick leave" in this company, which creates more problems than just one person out on sick leave.
The contagion spreads, you have 4-5 people out sick now and production is down, over-time for the healthy has sky-rocketed and now the boss is screaming about overtime.
Give at least a week's sick leave so that the ONE sick person can stay home and keep their germs to themselves.
Should Sick Leave Be A Mandatory Benefit?
As an HR Manager, I am employed by a company that does not offer sick leave to their employees. Upon entering this company, the new employee is entitled to 2 weeks vacation a year. If an employee gets sick, he is forced to use one of the vacation days as sick leave. I am trying to change this. Why?
No sick leave benefits has employees coming into work sick, subjecting healthy employees to their illness and spreading germs. You can bet that there will be other getting sick because one employee was not allowed to take sick leave. No one will take a vacation day as "sick leave" in this company, which creates more problems than just one person out on sick leave.
The contagion spreads, you have 4-5 people out sick now and production is down, over-time for the healthy has sky-rocketed and now the boss is screaming about overtime.
Give at least a week's sick leave so that the ONE sick person can stay home and keep their germs to themselves.
It's just simple logic.