Mental health is still an issue in the workplace

Re:Mental health is still an issue in the workplace by Scarblac on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:39AM (#14717863)

In most (western, don't know otherwise) countries, you stay home when you're sick, and get paid because it's outside of your control. No matter if that is day 1 this year or day 20.

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Re:Mental health is still an issue in the workplace by gpawl on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:35PM (#14723082)

So employers need to be careful not to hire sickly people?

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Re:Mental health is still an issue in the workplace by pertymcpert on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:39PM (#14723938)

It's illegal to discriminate against someone because of their medical background or disability unless it's critical for the job. For medical background they wouldn't be able to get the information anyway.

Sickness is just part of the cost of doing business with people, not robots.

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Re:Mental health is still an issue in the workplace by izacus on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:40AM (#14724258)

> So employers need to be careful not to hire sickly people?

Wow. O.o

So in US employers just whip sickly people into coming to work or how does that line of reasoning work?

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