Is this an individual thing or a generational thing?

greenwitch
Fri, 06 Jan 2017 21:23:53 +0000

It’s weird how some employee benefits booklets will really spell things out and others won’t. Or, there will be vague areas. For example, my H works at a large hospital. There were only 4 of them on the night shift in a certain department so they worked out their vacation schedules together (you always needed the other person to cover you). They were all supposed to get 3 days for the death of a parent or spouse’s parent but H only took one day, when he switched with his counterpart, and had to pay that day back to the counterpart.

The night crew went to their department with this and other grievances. It was clarified that for bereavement or other situations the person would just not go to work for the 3 days and the hospital would have to hire a service remotely to cover for them. Of course, the hospital is not going to bend over backwards and offer to do that so it suited them that the night shift had been so accommodating. It was good for all that the situation was clarified because soon afterwards one of the night crew got called in for jury duty and he was out for more than 2 weeks!