Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'

Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by alistairSH on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:14PM (#22742658)

How would one go about obtaining prior permission for sick leave? You don't know you're going to get COVID, or break an arm, or whatever.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me for an employee to be able to call in and say "Hey, [I have | my kid has] [condition], I need some time off" (and get that time off without fearing for their job, house, and food supply).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by leetcrew on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:18PM (#22742706)

this is part of my point. sick leave isn't equivalent to PTO.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by alistairSH on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @08:33AM (#22747930)

That's how it's offered in much of the US. Vacation and sick are rolled into a single block of time (which is usually too little for any major health issue).

I'd love for everybody to get 3 (or more) weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of sick leave. But, the chances of American employers jumping from literally nothing (in many cases) to anything resembling a reasonable policy is next to zero. Because stock market. Or profits. Or reasons.

[ Parent | on HN ]