You have the right to remain silent, and stay home

The BC Human Rights Tribunal has busted Coast Mountain Bus Company for its Absentee Management program, on the grounds that it discriminates against workers who have a physical or mental disability. This page has nothing but contempt for employers who try to harass and intimidate their employees through such dehumanizing tests of company loyalty, in a poor attempt to bypass provisions with collective agreements for sick time and medical appointments. Those provisions make their way into collective agreements because it's understood that one: sick or injured workers aren't going to return to health on the job, and two: specialists, let alone general practitioners, are seldom available during evenings and weekends AND accepting new patients.

Absentee Management, or Attendance Management as it's called by other employers, is the practice of expecting one's employees to work themselves to death by making them feel guilty about taking sick time or time for medical appointments. Most collective agreements have filters against abuse (such as the requirement of a doctor's note after x number of days). In this case, the abuse is in the eye of the employer, and this page congratulates the Tribunal for siding with the bus drivers, and the transit users who depend on them.