The definition given below for availability applies to our organization, I’m referring to employees who only come in when we ask them to, as opposed to “on-call” employees, who are always at the ready for an emergency.
My question relates more to sick days for those employees hired on availability. Our part-time employees are entitled to two sick days yearly (we call them excused absences; one does not necessarily need to actually be sick).
According to Bill 176, it appears that this 2-day paid time off applies to all employees.
However, we are having a hard time wrapping our heads around the idea of our calling a casual employee because we have need of them, only to have them tell us they’re sick that day, and find ourselves having to pay them for that day anyway (plus call in a different on-call employee and pay them), in accordance with the 2-paid-days-off policy of the Law.
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