Comments on: Spirituality at Work Roundup

By: Shelby Meyerhoff

Shelby Meyerhoff — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:40:35 +0000

“I am surprised Wheaton can actually staff a campus with such policies.”

I’m surprised too! Especially since the studies I’ve seen show that divorce rates among evangelicals are no lower than among the general population.

By: GhostGirl

GhostGirl — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:17:56 +0000

For the most part, everyone I have ever worked with is under the impression that FMLA is for long-term absences and requires a doctor’s note. Or maybe that’s just been the company policy. I’ve certainly never seen abuse of it, but then I’ve never worked in a place that didn’t provide ample sick days.

By: Comrade Kevin

Comrade Kevin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:34:43 +0000

FMLA is such a complicated system that one must almost be a scholar to understand the ends and outs.

That’s the problem, pure and simple. The ill-educated often end up compromised by a system that they do not understand and do not know how to work for their own benefit.

By: h sofia

h sofia — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:51:02 +0000

I saw abuse of FMLA sometimes in my former workplace, but it always came down to the managers, and how well they enforced policies already in place. If anything, I saw more people who didn’t use it when they were entitled to (not wanting to bother with paperwork, or explaining personal issues to supervisors), than people who did use it for things that were questionable.

I wish that employers would hold managers more responsible instead of just trying to make the laws more restrictive. Also, the more stressful the work environment, the more you are going to have employees with stress related illnesses. Stress is like smoking - it just universally exacerbates every health problem known to humankind. BTW, out of several hundred people in an office where I used to work, the absolute worst “abusers” of FMLA from my perspective were a handful of those in managerial or leadership positions. Not upper management, but lower management. Kind of hard to keep track of other people, if you’re never at work at yourself.