My wife is employed at a nursing home in Indiana. They advised their employees that if they call in sick, they must report to work and be checked by the nursing staff there to make sure the person is ill. Is this legal ??
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An employer can request and enforce a medical excuse from a licensed physician; it does not mean they have to give it.
Legal? Sure. Ridiculous? For sure. If I’m down with the flu, head exploding, vomiting, fever, I’m not getting dressed to drive into work, just so some idiot can check me over and send me back home. And I’m not racking up an ER charge of several 100′s of dollars to get a doctor’s note, neither. (A family doctor appointment can take a couple weeks. They tell you if you need immediate assistance, go to ER.)
That is so stupid…like people who are not feeling well really want to get out of bed and go into work to get checked! And anyway, what standard do they go by? What if a person has diarrhea with no fever or any other symptom? Are they going to go into the bathroom with them to check? What if she has a migraine headache? No one can function at work with one of those but the symptoms are not visible or measurable. So because of reasons like that I would think it is illegal, but I don’t know for sure. She should go to your state board of employee rights or whatever it’s called and find out and make a complaint.
But maybe the best thing to do is to show up after swallowing something that’s really gross and then she can vomit all over the person who is examining her. That should teach them.
Since they are only telling you to see a nurse, I would tell them to stick it. They are not doctors or qualified to make diagnosis. Will they assume liability if there is something severely wrong and possibly being contagious you make others sick? You can call in for three days in a row before they can ask for a physicians note.
I don’t think this is legal, if it is then it is highly unethical and the law needs to be changed. Tell your wife to refuse to act like a slave.