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Letter
# 27
Subj.: Sickdays
Date: 09/16/2000 7:23:37 AM Pacific Daylight
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From: # 27-LV (coded for anonymity)
To: dealers@nfge.com
What are our rights concerning sick days? I work at
Paris Las Vegas and recently dealers have begun getting warning
slips and suspensions for sick caIls.
One dealer was forced to work with an abscessed tooth: She
had called in (her 6th call-in this year) to have an emergency
root canal when she woke up in pain that morning, she was notified
she would be receiving a warning slip for the call-in but she felt
she had no other option. That night the botched root-canal
inflamed and she woke up with her face so badly swollen, and in so
much pain, she went to the emergency room at the hospital and
received a shot of demerol for the pain at 8am.
She reported for work at noon with Dr's notes in hand and
told Jerry Tuthill (day shift boss) that she was on demerol and
codeine, still in pain and very sick from the infection and
antibiotics and didn't feel she could perform her duties. At
this point she looked like a chipmunk, her face was so badly
swollen, and she was undeniably very ill indeed.
Jerry gave her the warning slip for the previous day's
call-in and told her that if she called in sick or went home I
more day in the next year from the date of the warning slip she
would be suspended for 3 days; once more ... and she would be
terminated. On the warning slip her absence was listed as
UNEXCUSED. Then he very sarcastically asked her "would you
like to go home now?" She stayed.
Can they do this to us? I've never seen anything like it
before. They say we only get 6 sick days a year; then when we get
the warning slip they say we can't call in again for another full
year.. .isn't that stretching it to 2 years? I don't get it.
Isn't a Dr's note an excused absence? Again, I don't get
it. If they force dealers to work sick aren't they exposing all of
us to illness and perpetuating the problem themselves? If we go
home sick that's also considered a sick call.
As of yesterday a flu epidemic is now at Paris. Dealers are
working sick because they have reached their maximum sick days
allowed. Jerry knows they are sick. This has got to stop.
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