Comments on: Can you collect employee medical info to combat H1N1? http://www.hrmorning.com/can-you-collect-employee-medical-info-to-combat-h1n1/ Your daily dose of HR Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:43:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: HRL http://www.hrmorning.com/can-you-collect-employee-medical-info-to-combat-h1n1/comment-page-1/#comment-30203 HRL Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:48:06 +0000 http://www.hrmorning.com/?p=5371#comment-30203 Our pandemic plan requires us to conduct employee screenings for 10 days following each reported case of H1N1. The screenings consist of three questions completed by the employee and given at the screening checkpoint before entering work. We also conduct temperature checks before an employee can go to work. We do not allow an employee to work if their fever is 100.3 or higher. We send them home and pay them for their time away from work with no attendance infractions. Its not that H1N1 is worse than the regular flu, it spreads faster and we have an obligation to our customers to limit the effects that absenteeism would have on servicing them. 1. Do you have flu like symptons or a fever? yes/no 2. Have you been exposed to someone with flu like symptons? yes/no 3. Have you traveled to an area where the flu is wide spread? yes/no Our pandemic plan requires us to conduct employee screenings for 10 days following each reported case of H1N1. The screenings consist of three questions completed by the employee and given at the screening checkpoint before entering work. We also conduct temperature checks before an employee can go to work. We do not allow an employee to work if their fever is 100.3 or higher. We send them home and pay them for their time away from work with no attendance infractions. Its not that H1N1 is worse than the regular flu, it spreads faster and we have an obligation to our customers to limit the effects that absenteeism would have on servicing them.

1. Do you have flu like symptons or a fever? yes/no
2. Have you been exposed to someone with flu like symptons? yes/no
3. Have you traveled to an area where the flu is wide spread? yes/no

]]> By: jo http://www.hrmorning.com/can-you-collect-employee-medical-info-to-combat-h1n1/comment-page-1/#comment-29474 jo Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:36:02 +0000 http://www.hrmorning.com/?p=5371#comment-29474 The CDC has the authority and knowledge to actually tell us as HR persons what we can or cannot ask? I would not feel comfortable asking any of these questions! Every position should have a continuity folder (daily, weekly, monthly , qrtly, EOY) for things they do AND step-by-step how to do them! I'm talking step 1 turn on computer, step 2 open firefox step 3 login (including a generic user name and password for emergencies) Any business can and should write their disaster preparedness plan where you do not know who the players will be from day to day. You identify the absolute "gotta do havta do" for each area (daily, through and including EOY) and then prioritize those against other areas within the company. When you are short of people you identify who is at work, their skills, and start tasking! If the continuity folders and emergency taskers are done correctly, and the at work employees fess up to all their skills 25 percent of a companies employees can keep the company going until the others start coming back to work. The CDC has the authority and knowledge to actually tell us as HR persons what we can or cannot ask? I would not feel comfortable asking any of these questions!

Every position should have a continuity folder (daily, weekly, monthly , qrtly, EOY) for things they do AND step-by-step how to do them! I’m talking step 1 turn on computer, step 2 open firefox step 3 login (including a generic user name and password for emergencies)

Any business can and should write their disaster preparedness plan where you do not know who the players will be from day to day. You identify the absolute “gotta do havta do” for each area (daily, through and including EOY) and then prioritize those against other areas within the company. When you are short of people you identify who is at work, their skills, and start tasking! If the continuity folders and emergency taskers are done correctly, and the at work employees fess up to all their skills 25 percent of a companies employees can keep the company going until the others start coming back to work.

]]> By: Judy http://www.hrmorning.com/can-you-collect-employee-medical-info-to-combat-h1n1/comment-page-1/#comment-29433 Judy Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:16:06 +0000 http://www.hrmorning.com/?p=5371#comment-29433 I agree. I agree.

]]> By: Curious Orange http://www.hrmorning.com/can-you-collect-employee-medical-info-to-combat-h1n1/comment-page-1/#comment-28667 Curious Orange Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:05:20 +0000 http://www.hrmorning.com/?p=5371#comment-28667 Seems like it's just another flu season to me. "The money is in the medicine, not the cure." Plenty of rest, sunshine and vitamin C. Seems like it’s just another flu season to me.
“The money is in the medicine, not the cure.”

Plenty of rest, sunshine and vitamin C.

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