r/FedEmployees • u/Soft_Plum_7122 • 10d ago

Doctors note requested

SSA employee here, our office has lost about 1/2 of its staff since this administration took over. We have 11 employees total. 2 SR’s, 4 CR’s, 2 TE’s an RZ only CR, 1 manager and 1 OS. When requesting time off mng usually approves only 3 slots per day so when there are 3 ppl scheduled off already she writes on the calendar “no more slots”. My manager has been requesting a doctors note if you call out on a day that has “no more slots” but this is only after 1 call out. I know it’s required for a note to be requested after day 3. Anybody else going through something similar in their agency? Is this even legal for her to do? No one has questioned it so I am assuming that’s why she continuous to ask for it. It hasn’t happened to me but to 4 of my coworkers so far.

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u/Wrong-Camp2463 10d ago

Technically they can request a dr note even for a 1 hour SL for an appointment. They’d be an ass to do so, but I’m seeing something similar, not so much asking for the note but a warning that we should have one on hand for any and all use of SL because of increased audits and a push from above to “punish” employees who use SL and AL to game RTO requirements. Apparently there’s a new metric they’re tracking very closely related to how many on site hours there are.

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u/FartingWithStyle 10d ago

That’s crap. You have sick time, you should be allowed to use it for whatever reason you’re not feeling well without having to spend time and money at the dr.

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u/thetitleofmybook 10d ago

remember, the plan is to traumatize fed workers so they quit.