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Originally Posted by germaine2626
Our contract did not allow you to use a sick day (we did not have PTO or vacation days) for funerals for non-immediate family members. So the union could not help if you were caught "misusing" sick days.
If you attended a funeral for an immediate family member, and used a sick day (three days for a spouse, parent or child) you needed to have proof such as death certificate, newspaper obituary, church bulletin or similar documentation. Apparently, there were one or two or several people who had a few too many grandparents die over the years. After that they never trusted anyone.
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Originally Posted by dmills
That's interesting that you would characterize it as "they never trusted anyone," as opposed to "a few employees ruined it for everyone."
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Actually, both statements were accurate.
Frankly, I was so insulted by their rule of requesting proof, together with your written request to use sick days (they preferred that you requested the sick day/days in
advance) for attending the funeral of an immediately family member, that I stapled every bit of proof that I could find for my father's death & funeral to the form, including both obituaries from the newspaper, a death certificate, the program from the funeral, and the card from the funeral home. I also stapled a poem that he had written and a copy of my favorite photograph of the two of us to the form.
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