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Old 10-27-2005, 04:40 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by piemma
unless you are self-employed or have a contract with your employer, you are flying without a net.
Sometimes even a contract doesn't help. I was with AT&T for 4 years. We were one of the last union offices in the country and had a great contract. Terrific wage, unbelievable bennies and plenty of vaca time. When someone needed or wanted to miss work for a medical reason, with a doctors consent form, the employee could miss work and even collect disability pay. However, under either the contract or the way the law is written, once an employee "used up" all of his or her FMLA days, he or she was required to then use vaca time to stay out of work, even if a doctor said the employee could not work. Once all vaca time was used, the absence was unexcused and the employee had to meet with an attendance manager. First occurance: verbal warning. Second occurance: written warning. Third: Dismissal. This held true even if the employee or employee's immediate family had life threatening illness.
When I started there, we had over 800 employees in our office. By the time I left, we were down to barely over 300, most gone through attrition and not replaced.
The moral of the story: If you work for AT&T don't have a fatal heart attack without checking with your attendance manager first to see if you have any FMLA days left!
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