If an employee is out sick due to suspected H1N1 and they would have otherwise come back to work on, say, Thursday, but we ask them to stay out until Monday when the CDC’s stated period of being contagious will have past…..do we charge their PTO or do we have to pay them normal pay for Thursday and Friday?
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That's a decision each individual bank needs to make. We have a policy in place that we are not going to charge accrued sick time for cases of H1N1 - so we would not charge their PTO -
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We ran this up the flag pole with our PEO as outsource HR & benefits. They advised us that we couln't force people to stay home and need to handle as any other illness. just to be sure we educate our staff about current flu prevention, encourage staff to stay home if sick and then support them when they call in sick. So we are keeping our pto policy as it is, continue to give out material on flu, and will give each employee a rebate toward their co-pay when submitting their receipt for a flu shot thru accounts payable.
I just participated in a webinar yesterday and learned that we have an obligaiton to employees and customers to protect them from contracting the virus. I was told that we are permitted to make an employee stay home if they show any symptoms and charge them PTO for doing so. (This was a lawyer who put on the webinar, so he is subject to change his mind as early as tomorrow. That's been my experience with lawyers. "Well, it could be this, or it could be that.")
Ditto to Happy's comments. Anyone, showing any signs, of ANY sickness and we tell them they must leave the building and assure them they will be paid for their time away.
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FYI - there is a new legislation pending that would require employers who send home sick employees to pay for their time off up to 5 days. I wish I could find the link to where I read that, but I can't. Sorry!
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