I will have to check our manual but I’ll bet it does not have that. Clever, we will add it.
From: Mark Radabaugh Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 5:51 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Workers Comp problem Do you have a signed employee manual that says ’no call, no show for 3 days constitutes a voluntary resignation’? You might get away with claiming he quit. We also added a rule saying injured workers must follow the doctors recommendations for physical therapy, if you don’t we get to fire you for cause. This was after a guy hurt himself and then decided he wasn’t going to do physical therapy because ‘it hurt’. No shit Sherlock. We couldn’t get him released for work since he wouldn’t do the physical therapy and we couldn’t fire him because that would be retaliation. Our workers comp lawyer was of the opinion we could fire him for not doing physical therapy when we had notified him it was a condition of employment when we hired him. Since we didn’t have any of those things in place the first time this happened we ended up stuck paying him until he finally got around to coming back to work with a full release. We didn’t want to risk firing him at that point, so we laid him off instead. Translated as we are never ever calling you back from layoff, go collect unemployment. The company pays for short and long term disability insurance for the employees. For me it’s worth it to be able to be able to move these guys off the payroll and onto short/long term disability if they are injured and can’t get back to work. It avoids the workers comp hit since technically we are still paying them. Mark On Apr 17, 2020, at 6:26 PM, [email protected] wrote: One of my guys decided to put his fingers between a trailer lunette ring and a pintle hitch. Crushed two of them pretty bad. Lost some skin. Had to have some parts re attached etc. That was two weeks ago. He has been no call no show ever since. Does not return calls from the workers comp person. He told his supervisor the the doctor said he cannot work. I called the doctors' office. They said no using that hand until it is better and no driving when taking the opioids.... I have a company van that drives around town picking up these guys and hauling them to the shop each morning. So he does not have to drive... WC said do not fire him until he comes back to work. He is malingering. He is milking it. Not sure what I can or should do. We did do a write up and his supervisor said he needs to sign it. Not sure if he saw it or not... -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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