Employment Scenarios, Discipline, and Arbitration Employees often partake in actions and do not think of the future consequences. Job performance does not always make up for the action. After all, most of the times it’s the bad things that get remembered. Discipline is necessary to ensure employees do not conduct this abuse again. If the employer wrongfully uses discipline, the employee and union steward might need to go to arbitration to get the problem resolved.
The Case of the Substance Abuse
St. Jude’s Hospital is noted in the medical field for being a highly successful in taking care of sick children. The employees and volunteers go out of their way to find medicinal cures and other ways to make a child feel both comfortable and normal. …show more content…
She works with child who have cancer. She is very thoughtful, plays with the children, and gives them pain medicine in the prescribe dosage to help them feel more relaxed. She has volunteered on many days to work overtime, due to lack of nurses, earning her the employee of the month.
Recently, Becky hurt her lower lumbar back region due to lifting heavy objects during her move to a new house. She attempted to work, but struggled to “straighten up” her body posture after sitting in a chair for several minutes. She continued to work for two weeks, but the pain became so unbearable that she decided to go to her family doctor.
When Becky went to the family doctor, he took x-rays and found out that she had a herniated disk. The doctor then said she needed to have surgery which would put her out of work for at least three months. The operation was successful and the surgeon put Becky on morphine to ease the pain. She was to take the medication, as needed, but became addicted and ran out of the medicine which had no …show more content…
The HR supervisor talked about the contract policy about immediate termination. The behavioral health supervisor mentioned the symptoms and problems dealing morphine addiction. Becky’s supervisor discussed Becky’s outstanding work performance with evaluation documents to prove it. Becky admitted to her failure, asked for forgiveness and her job back. The unit steward finished his case when he read the second chance clause in the contract. Ted Dibase reviewed all the testimonial evidence and used his life experiences to come to a conclusion (three day suspension without pay) in favor of Becky. I came to this conclusion because sometimes a person can have an addiction that can be cured with he proper rehabilitation. Also, there are a lack of nurses in the United States, and a hard worker is not easy to
The Case of the Substance Abuse
St. Jude’s Hospital is noted in the medical field for being a highly successful in taking care of sick children. The employees and volunteers go out of their way to find medicinal cures and other ways to make a child feel both comfortable and normal. …show more content…
She works with child who have cancer. She is very thoughtful, plays with the children, and gives them pain medicine in the prescribe dosage to help them feel more relaxed. She has volunteered on many days to work overtime, due to lack of nurses, earning her the employee of the month.
Recently, Becky hurt her lower lumbar back region due to lifting heavy objects during her move to a new house. She attempted to work, but struggled to “straighten up” her body posture after sitting in a chair for several minutes. She continued to work for two weeks, but the pain became so unbearable that she decided to go to her family doctor.
When Becky went to the family doctor, he took x-rays and found out that she had a herniated disk. The doctor then said she needed to have surgery which would put her out of work for at least three months. The operation was successful and the surgeon put Becky on morphine to ease the pain. She was to take the medication, as needed, but became addicted and ran out of the medicine which had no …show more content…
The HR supervisor talked about the contract policy about immediate termination. The behavioral health supervisor mentioned the symptoms and problems dealing morphine addiction. Becky’s supervisor discussed Becky’s outstanding work performance with evaluation documents to prove it. Becky admitted to her failure, asked for forgiveness and her job back. The unit steward finished his case when he read the second chance clause in the contract. Ted Dibase reviewed all the testimonial evidence and used his life experiences to come to a conclusion (three day suspension without pay) in favor of Becky. I came to this conclusion because sometimes a person can have an addiction that can be cured with he proper rehabilitation. Also, there are a lack of nurses in the United States, and a hard worker is not easy to