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Do most people really want to know how you're Really doing?
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@fritzo Smart move. In most places that would put you near the top of the layoff list. HIPPA prevents your management from knowing much about treatment even if using work insurance to pay for it.
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" In most places ..."
Yes, most places in the USA : (((.
In Austria and Germany, for example, employer would go to court for that and have serious fines because of very strict labor laws. Only if patient is terminally ill or will be permanently disabled there would be so called initiation of dismissal but worker would have a compensation for life and in amount that is almost the same as was the salary.
Interestingly the same applies for USA companies that have their offices in Germany ! Workers in Germany have those same protections while workers in the same company in the USA have none in those circumstances : (
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@jim18 You know...that is so true. I don't think that would have happened to me...but I also think I'd be written off.
Yeah, our HR manager is the biggest talker in the office....I've heard her tell me things that I shouldn't know. So, I definitely made sure that the only thing they knew was that I was having abdominal surgery and nothing more. As it turns out, the HR manager has had multiple robotic laprascopic surgeries...so she was actually nice...but I still didn't share beyond that.