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<blockquote data-quote="andrew99" data-source="post: 769775" data-attributes="member: 23431"><p>"It's nothing to worry about" != "It's not contagous" , and the steward agreed. </p><p> </p><p>We all know the absolute assertion presented with "it's not contagous". It's not relative. What isn't contagous to me - shouldn't be contagous to you, him or them. I'm happy with all angles that statement covers.</p><p> </p><p>"it's nothing to worry about" isn't so specific. I tend to believe that of the things my supervisor worries about, a potential skin rash on my arm, isn't one of them. </p><p> </p><p>There is no reason a supervisor can't say "the employee has a medical condition that we're aware of, and isn't contagous". No law is going to make it illegal to confirm or deny the communicability of a visible condition on an employee., that's absurd. Now if UPS has a policy which mandates supervisors to obfusticate matters regarding the communication of personal health issues between employees, that wouldn't surprise me. To infer that a federal law prohibits any mention over the communicable status of a noticible illness amongst coworkers, that's a stretch.</p><p> </p><p>Of course there's always more to the story. The employee regularly had a cover over it, which is S.O.P for treating ringworm. He stopped wearing it, and my first recourse was to ask the supervisor for him to cover it back up.... the supervisor said they'd look into it. When he came back to work with it still uncovered, I asked if they had followed up (they had not), and then asked not to work with the guy. So yeah, I felt like I was being blown off, and I probably was. </p><p> </p><p>Thinking back to this event, I had never seen ringworm of that size. It didn't look like ringworm I'd seen before and wouldn't of taken much to palcate my concerns. However, being pushed around and subjected to conditions less than those which my own boss & supervisors would tolerate definately motivated me to go above and beyond what I would regularly do to ensure my complaint be handled.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="andrew99, post: 769775, member: 23431"] "It's nothing to worry about" != "It's not contagous" , and the steward agreed. We all know the absolute assertion presented with "it's not contagous". It's not relative. What isn't contagous to me - shouldn't be contagous to you, him or them. I'm happy with all angles that statement covers. "it's nothing to worry about" isn't so specific. I tend to believe that of the things my supervisor worries about, a potential skin rash on my arm, isn't one of them. There is no reason a supervisor can't say "the employee has a medical condition that we're aware of, and isn't contagous". No law is going to make it illegal to confirm or deny the communicability of a visible condition on an employee., that's absurd. Now if UPS has a policy which mandates supervisors to obfusticate matters regarding the communication of personal health issues between employees, that wouldn't surprise me. To infer that a federal law prohibits any mention over the communicable status of a noticible illness amongst coworkers, that's a stretch. Of course there's always more to the story. The employee regularly had a cover over it, which is S.O.P for treating ringworm. He stopped wearing it, and my first recourse was to ask the supervisor for him to cover it back up.... the supervisor said they'd look into it. When he came back to work with it still uncovered, I asked if they had followed up (they had not), and then asked not to work with the guy. So yeah, I felt like I was being blown off, and I probably was. Thinking back to this event, I had never seen ringworm of that size. It didn't look like ringworm I'd seen before and wouldn't of taken much to palcate my concerns. However, being pushed around and subjected to conditions less than those which my own boss & supervisors would tolerate definately motivated me to go above and beyond what I would regularly do to ensure my complaint be handled. [/QUOTE]
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