Leave/absentee rules must bend to accommodate the new reality of a pandemic

[Farmer]

Hat tip to Crof - Australia: Hospital workers refuse to deal with flu patients.
Hospital orderlies and housekeepers are refusing to work around flu patients unless their sick leave rules are relaxed.
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/07/30/55061_local-news.html

I think that this issue is broader than employee sick leave. I think that schools and universities must also suspend absentee rules and guidelines this fall.

Until we have a safe and effective vaccine that is widely distributed and administered, social distancing and self isolation will be critical to slow spread of pan H1N1.

If people continue to feel that their job, school or university career will be threatened by an absence due to illness, we will all be at increased risk this fall.

 

[tropical]

Re: Leave/absentee rules must bend to accommodate the new reality of a pandemic

A whealthy country which don't wan't pay a sick leave of their infected health workers?

Do they works in Congo, as precious humanitarians?

Pay. But at the same time, no defectors can be tolerated from the illnessed citizens, if the staff were properly shielded by safety gears/masks/etc, or vaccines, during their work.

And if things goes worst, in an emergency, an forced health work regime could be contemplated ...

Hat tip to Crof - Australia: Hospital workers refuse to deal with flu patients.
Hospital orderlies and housekeepers are refusing to work around flu patients unless their sick leave rules are relaxed.
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/07/30/55061_local-news.html

I think that this issue is broader than employee sick leave. I think that schools and universities must also suspend absentee rules and guidelines this fall.

Until we have a safe and effective vaccine that is widely distributed and administered, social distancing and self isolation will be critical to slow spread of pan H1N1.

If people continue to feel that their job, school or university career will be threatened by an absence due to illness, we will all be at increased risk this fall.