No one needs to know why you’re calling out sick — would you tell your boss if you were projectile vomiting or having horrible cramps?
By
Alison Green,
The Cut’s workplace-advice columnist
who has run her own career-advice website, Ask a Manager, for 15 years. Green is the author of Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work and Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager’s Guide to Getting Results.
Dear Boss,
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Union representatives said the policy is forcing people to go to the doctor and pay a co-pay for minor illnesses.
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Employers say they’re doing enough to help with medical costs, but workers disagree
