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EisFrei@lemmy.world 2 months agoIdk about Sweden, but in Germany middle management visited sick employees at their homes to check whether they were really sick.
I don’t know if it was all the workers, but a lot of those workers hadn’t been to work all year (around September at the time).
Apparently it’s not abnormal for people to abuse the system there and do things like this.
There was some stuff about patterns of a subset of workers taking Fridays off sick as well.
the thing is: the employer has absolutely 0 say on if a person is sick or not. If a doctor says a person can’t work: that’s it. The company 0 in the matter.
In fact, the company isn’t even allowed to ask why a person is sick. An official note from the doctor is all that matters
In Germany it’s legal for an employer to visit an employee. The employee is under no obligation to open the door, however.
As this article covers, it doesn’t really make sense to visit an employee, as the issue might not be visually apparent.
I’m sure other EU countries have variations on this but in the UK this has already been legally decided. If somebody is abusing the sickness system you document it, you confirm it via the terrible Branford system, and then you hold them in for a meeting.
You don’t randomly turn up at their house, there is absolutely no justification for that and it is a stalking crime for them to do that.
I would love to know how much is spent trying to catch people trying to game the system, compared to lost compensation because of sick leave.
Past a point, they must surely be spending more hiring this whole team of detectives than they would be just letting the workers take Friday off.
Yes, that reminds me of when Florida(?) started requiring drug testing for welfare recipients and ended up spending more on the tests than whatever they saved uncovering fraud.
That would be interesting ya. I don’t think there would be any way to recoup the cost for the person calling is sick on Friday semi frequently or similar things, but for the people who are gaming the system and didn’t work for a year it’d probably make sense if you truly were that suspicious.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Holy fuck. I’m sorry, if I take a sick day I take a sick day - you might see me out shopping for groceries to survive the day, but I am by no means well.
b3an@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Uhm excuse me. If you can walk and carry groceries, clearly you are well 👏 enough 👏 to work 👏. I’m waiting on those TPP reports tetris11!
Them probably.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I miss the days when the employees collectively knew where their bosses lived and how to tie fuel-soaked rags to sticks
b3an@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Suomessa, tiedämme muutamia asioita Molotovin cocktaileista. ;)
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We call them “TPS reports” buddy. slaps back
b3an@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dang I was close-ish. Fixed