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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your husband have an office type job?  Does he have a private office?

If he's afraid to ask for time off, then tell him to bring the sick kid in with a sleeping bag and a tablet and the kid can sleep/rest in the sleeping bag and/or watch videos from the tablet.  I know someone who was like that, who asked for leave, was refused and just brought her child with her to work and had him sleep in the office in the corner.  The supervisor may become more lenient if they see him coming to work with the sick child.  Or, if it doesn't affect his work having the child there, the supervisor may just look the other way.[/quote]

So you and your friend think it is fine to bring your sick kid to the office and pass on his germs to other people   I would have sent your friend home.[/quote]

That was the point.  The friend ASKED for leave but was refused.  She would have preferred to be home on leave taking care of her child, but was denied.  So, you sending her home would have been the same situation, only inconveniencing her by making her come in, sick child in tow, just to prove the point that it would have been better to have approved her leave request in the first place.

No, we don't think it is fine to bring the child in.  But the employer did not give her an option when they refused her leave request.[/quote]

You miss the point.  I would have docked you  and would make an immediate change to Employees 's handbook that children were not allowed in office due to liability issues.[/quote]

If that's your attitude stop refusing someone using sick leave that they have accrued.  You're a really lousy employer if you refuse to allow an employee to use accrued sick leave to tend to a sick child.  In fact, if you docked the parent for doing that, you run the risk of being sued for discrimination.  You cannot discriminate based on family composition, so you better be denying everyone asking to use accrued sick leave more than X days in the same 6 month period. [/quote]

I'm terrified.[/quote]

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