Sheesh

[selenite0]

A bulletin from my management:

After returning from personal travel to a SARS-affected area, employees must refrain from reporting to work for at least fourteen days. During that time, employees must monitor the development of any SARS symptoms. Those developing one or more symptoms must not report to work until they have obtained medical certification confirming that they are able to work and are not contagious.
During the period spent at home following personal travel to a SARS-affected area, employees may charge the time to vacation or no pay, as appropriate. Please contact a Business Manager or Human Resources Manager with any questions about time charging.

Oh, lovely. We get docked two week's pay for being in quarantine. Isn't that what sick time is supposed to be for?

Comments

[patgund.livejournal.com]

You know, somehow I really don't think this will fly with the Labour Board or other legal agenties.

And let me get this straight, if the company sends you over, no quarantine or anything like that. But if you go over on your own nickel, you're supposed to eat the cost of a 2 week unoffical quarantine. Even though you're free to go anywhere else you choose?

Gak

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Company travel to those areas has to be approved by a VP, so presumably the quarantine and who pays for it would be decided then. Still pretty flipping annoying.

I also noticed this came from the Security people, not health. These are the same people who reacted to 9/11 by two weeks later blocking off half the entrances to the parking lots--with no control or monitoring over the others.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

So what you're saying is that the security people are at best clueless, and at worse, utter dolts? Or what we in the tech industry call a PICNIC. (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer)

[selenite.livejournal.com]

There's something worse than utter dolts. There's people who try to promote their climb up the ladder by sacrificing other people in the name of being "proactive." I think that's exactly what we've got here.