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<blockquote data-quote="Work the system" data-source="post: 291718"><p>Tie has just taught you a valuable lesson. What the company says, promises, or does does not, in any way, translate into your day to day interaction with management. </p><p></p><p>Since you only do this once a year, or certainly only once every nine months (check your contract language on the length of time that warning letters are in effect) I would suggest </p><p>NOT calling in and NOT showing up.</p><p>This is obviously called a "No Call, No Show" and will get management all fired up. </p><p>When asked why you didn't call in and didn't show up, explain what happened last time and that you tried to work with management but were shown the light. Expect a warning letter. </p><p></p><p>Of course before you do this be concious of your status as far as attendance discipline goes. In our building part-timers are given a 'talk with', three meetings in which forms are filled out that are basically additional 'talk with's', a warning letter, one day, three day, then a five day suspension before termination. Any infraction (being late, calling in, calling in sick even with sick days) can lead to the next progressive discipline step. Keep clean for 9 months and it drops back to the last step. 9 months after the most current infraction and you are free and clear. </p><p></p><p>Sick days require you to call in and actually be sick (no you do not have to say anything other than "I'm sick, I can't make it in today"), however these entitle you to pay not freedom from discipline for calling in sick. If anybody has a recurring health problem they should be on FMLA to protect their job. If management is paying sick days for days not called in as "sick" this is an illegal and unethical practice and must be stopped. Your building should have an established practice for requesting time off if necessary especially for students. In my experience, an established practice for requesting time off along with a consistently enforced absenteism disipline policy will reduce part-timer attendance problems and reduce turnover. Establishing this practice in my building went a long way to reducing part-time employee turnover by almost 50%. </p><p></p><p>I would get with your steward and hopefully the business agent to address these problems and come up with a practice in your building.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Work the system, post: 291718"] Tie has just taught you a valuable lesson. What the company says, promises, or does does not, in any way, translate into your day to day interaction with management. Since you only do this once a year, or certainly only once every nine months (check your contract language on the length of time that warning letters are in effect) I would suggest NOT calling in and NOT showing up. This is obviously called a "No Call, No Show" and will get management all fired up. When asked why you didn't call in and didn't show up, explain what happened last time and that you tried to work with management but were shown the light. Expect a warning letter. Of course before you do this be concious of your status as far as attendance discipline goes. In our building part-timers are given a 'talk with', three meetings in which forms are filled out that are basically additional 'talk with's', a warning letter, one day, three day, then a five day suspension before termination. Any infraction (being late, calling in, calling in sick even with sick days) can lead to the next progressive discipline step. Keep clean for 9 months and it drops back to the last step. 9 months after the most current infraction and you are free and clear. Sick days require you to call in and actually be sick (no you do not have to say anything other than "I'm sick, I can't make it in today"), however these entitle you to pay not freedom from discipline for calling in sick. If anybody has a recurring health problem they should be on FMLA to protect their job. If management is paying sick days for days not called in as "sick" this is an illegal and unethical practice and must be stopped. Your building should have an established practice for requesting time off if necessary especially for students. In my experience, an established practice for requesting time off along with a consistently enforced absenteism disipline policy will reduce part-timer attendance problems and reduce turnover. Establishing this practice in my building went a long way to reducing part-time employee turnover by almost 50%. I would get with your steward and hopefully the business agent to address these problems and come up with a practice in your building. [/QUOTE]
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