Why do these snow communists hate Freedumb?
Eight in 10 Canadians said they would go to work sick if their employer required a sick note, and that puts the public in danger.
globalnews.ca
When I got my first job at a McDonald's, the corporate-provided new-employee materials, as well as policy wall-posters (also provided by corporate) in the office by the clock, said in no uncertain terms that if you feel sick, should NOT come to work. People who are sick are exactly not the people you want to be preparing food for the public.
On the other hand, the managers never hesitated to demand a doctor's note of anyone who called off and expected it on the day you returned to work. The thing is, in the US, you are very fortunate if you're able to call your PCP and get an appointment sometime
that week let alone that day or the next day - sometimes the next clear appointment slot is a month away. And this was just a bit before the days of widespread urgent care clinics; your only option to be seen
today was to go to the hospital emergency room - a visit which your insurance won't cover if it's not a "real" emergency, and which also strains ER resources (this whole thing is why urgent care clinics were eventually invented in the first place). So the message was very clear - if you're not so sick that you're willing to eat the substantial cost of an ER visit to get a note, then your ass had better come to work, sick or not. This is very self-evidently not what is implied by the corporate policy, but nobody in charge cared.
The existence of urgent care clinics now, probably makes obtaining doctor notes a little easier - but whether or not, I have no reason to believe the unwritten-policies-conflicting-with-"official"-posted-corporate-policies thing has changed at all.
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