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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We require our APs to be home 8 hours before the beginning of her shift.  It's in the handbook and discussed during interviews.  [/quote]

How can you think its okay to dictate the sleeping habits of an employee? Like really. How is that okay?
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NP here. an employer should not dictate, but an enployee should behave in a responsible manner. getting home from a party two hours before your shift starts is simply irresponsible, because there is no way you can be as reponsive and ready to care for kids as if you had a decent night of sleep.

if you owned a truck company, would you be OK with one of your driver show up in the morning to drive the truck after a night out partying and with almost no sleep? [/quote]

No I wouldn't am I'm not saying that its okay. But the behavior you address is the on the job behavior. There were plenty of nights as a college student that I spent up all night studying, screwing around with friends, or whatever but I could pull it together enough to take my exam and go to work. If an employee is out all night, but functions fine at work the next day then there is no issue. If they don't function well, then you call them on whatever they are/aren't doing well and its up to them to decide what the solution is or lose their job. I maintain that it is not an employer's place to dictate how an employee spends their off time so long as they aren't breaking the law, and they continue to perform their job to standards. OP said that her AP stays out late, nowhere did she say that AP doesn't do her job well because of it, simply that it is her fear. [/quote]

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