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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I take it you were never a manager. There are employees who may try filing a grievance but a good manager would have the documentation to counter it.
A year on sick leave with no documentation from a medical professional? I seriously doubt it. Where I worked if you were off even seven days you could expect to be asked for documentation. A full year? Sure, odd, one-off things happen; 12 people have walked on the moon but that hardly equates to Americans all go to the moon.
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Not true. I was a manager and also was an Inspector General, responsible for knowing and enforcing the rules. The problem with asking for medical documentation is that, unless you enforce the requirement consistently across the agency, you are discriminating. Someone who wants to use a year of sick leave is just as entitled to use it as the guy who calls in sick on Monday morning almost every week. Another problem is that the employee doesn't need to be sick to use the leave. He/she can say that he needs to travel out of town to help a friend or family member. And, finally, most employees who abuse sick leave can usually provide a letter from a medical provider, and the manager has no way to dispute the letter. The agency is not going to hire a doctor to dispute a medical letter from a private doctor.