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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My thoughts:

I have a 6 year old. To me, age isn't as relevant to this as type of sickness. If it's a stomach thing, I'm not getting anything done, because my kid is barfing every 10 minutes or running to the bathroom thinking she will. Then I'm cleaning it up, getting her settled back, giving her liquids, etc. Could I get some work done? Sure. Would I be as productive as on a regular work day? No.

The main reason I think she is taking advantage, and why I think if you enforced the policy it would clearly become obvious she was, is because there's no reason she should be the one who stays home with the kid every single time. In a family where the parents have to take leave if their kid is sick and stay home with them, the parents would switch off. If she's staying home 7 times in 7 times of her kid getting "sick" it's because there's a benefit for her to do so. If it was an enforced policy of having to take  her own sick leave or vacation day to do it, I think you'd quickly find she would be in the office with her husband taking the hit from time to time. Because she wouldn't want to lose her PTO every single time her kid got sick.

I would explain you've been understanding, but that 7 times in a month is excessive and she's going to need to either start switching off with her husband or using PTO because you can't set that precedent.[/quote]

Did OP confirm that the teleworker isn't a single parent? Because this is a pretty awful assumption to make if you don't know.[/quote]

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