Management takes away employee's sick day if they're 1 minute late for 4 shifts; 'Is this legal?'

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    r/antiwork u/generaljustin3 . 1d Is this allowed
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    Please be advised: Due to too many employees abusing the system. Starting today any employee calling in sick. Such employee will not get paid for a sick day, unless a doctor's note is presented when such employee returns to work. Any employee clocking-in late (after 8:01 am) 4 days' out of each calendar month will automatically lose one (1) sick day. Any lost sick days' due to being late will not be honored at year end, Best regards: Management
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    Textured Teflon • 1d I like the complete sentence "Starting today any employee calling in sick." Even has its own line too. Reply 5.6k
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    recovery_room - 1d "Such employee" is giving "Particular individual" vibes from Idiocracy. 41.7k ..
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    Diestof 23h Trying to sound smart when it has the complete opposite effect 508
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    iDam81. 1d "Due to too many employees abusing the system." This is also not a complete sentence. Someone needs to get a red sharpie and do some markup here. ... 216
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    Dipperoni Pizza • 1d In many (blue) states, companies are not legally allowed to ask for doctor's notes until the employee is sick for three consecutive days or more. Reply ... 3.5k
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    jaydaba • 1d This!! Seriously I can't imagine everytime I get the sniffles I have to go to andoctor and pay a copay for a piece of paper. ... 933
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    DanKloudtrees. 1d OP should ask the boss if he'll pay for the copay since he's the one requiring the notes, on the grounds that if you don't need medical assistance but are being forced to go anyway that it removes the monetary benefit that would have been gained from having the extra sick day in the first place, not to mention that if you're sick and need rest that having to go to the doctor could effect recovery time.
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    This is what bosses often get wrong, they treat their people like children then expect them to act like adults. While working in a coffee shop I'd found that generally treating children and teenagers like adults sets the expectation that they are to act like adults and they typically act well behaved in these circumstances, with some but little exception. Conversely, treating adults like children may end up reinforcing any bad behavior that they're trying to curb in the first place. Most people
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    karaBear01 1d ● Right? A $200 medical visit just for the doctor to confirm that I have diarrhea G 188
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    StrongFig1477 • 1d Not legal. NY sick leave https://www.ny.gov/ Programs/New-York-Paid-Sick- Leave#:~:text=Sick%20Leave%20Requirements&tex t=Employers%20with%20100%20or%20more, sick %20leave%20per%20calendar%20year.&text=Empl oyers%20with%205%2D99%20employees, sick%20 leave%20per%20calendar%20year.&text=lf%20net %20income%20is%20%241, hours%20of%20unpai d%20sick%20leave. Also not legal to claim 8:01 as late. Sick days can not be removed. If you ask for a doctors note on state allotted sick leave
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    aunclesquishy • 23h wait, it's not legal to claim 8:01 as late? how late legally counts as late? . . . 113
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    yesi1758 20h ● Best Buy considered you late at the 6min mark, this was CA about 20 years ago. It depends on your companies policy, check the handbook. 4114 ↓
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    CartoonistOk8261 - 10h Back in my management days (not best buy), I would tell everybody it was a 6 minute rule. The ownership wanted me to keep track of tardies, because my manager was downplaying the problem. I had one person who was between 6 and 90 minutes late a grand total of 76 times before I was allowed to fire them. The employee was absolutely shocked when it happened. I was also not allowed to fire two people who were smoking weed on the clock. G 421
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    chompy2831d Doctor's notes are ridiculous. Adults are not 5 yrs old. And Doctors offices do NOT want to see actively sick and infectious people now unless there is a reason to actually see the doctor for some type of real medical treatment. Most illness are rest, fluids and tylenol and time. So having to go to the doctor, infect everyone else there and also then pay your $50 copay or whatever is absurd. This Doctor's Note needs to END. Reply ... 42.9k
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    Key-Mountain-9473 • 1d I used to work in a busy ER and people would come in all the time for doctor's notes that eventually one of the docs just gave us a "This person visited the ER on this day and can't work from x day to x day if they don't feel able to." and let whoever was in triage to just hand them out. I would literally just ask the person how long they want to be out for, type it in, print, hand them the note and tell them to have a seat in the waiting room. Not single one would still b
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    Dresden Murphy . 1d They can't deduct your sick days for being late. Then again what do I know. I live in a country where you'll call your doctor and tell them you're ill, they advise you further and give you a sick leave. And after a few days your sick leave pay is covered employer, and if it drags on for longer, by the state. Reply 673 ...

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