Blood donation is a noble concept, and people who go as volunteers act out of selfless love, to help somebody in need. It becomes a life saviour moment! And when Organizations encourage this concept and give certain benefits to the volunteer, it contributes to the society and his boosting his deeds.
One of the ways Organizations encourage this deed is by awarding a ‘Leave’ to the volunteer, a day after he/she donated blood. This helps in taking rest if a person feels some weakness, or dizziness [which I believe happens for some while to all]. But what if people start taking advantage out of this special Leave granted, for personal reasons, and it’s then that HR needs to scrutinize the case with Eagle eyes.
Citing an example of availing such Leave grants for personal use; whereby an employee brought a letter from a doctor stating blood donation on 29th April. The employee also brought along a letter asking for grant of Leave. The contents of the letter were however as following:
• The employee needs to donate blood to his father on 29th April. [The medical transcript also cites the same date]
• On 30th April he lets his incharge know that he needs to donate blood, so he won’t come on 30th.
• On 1st May he takes leave, availing the Leave award, to overcome weakness, however there’s a breakdown of some machine in his department; and he is recalled post lunch hours for Maintenance purposes.
• On 2nd May he comes to the HR Dept., to get a Leave granted for 2nd May as he was called for duty on 1st.
• The letter written by the employee bears the signature of his dept. incharge’s approval, who merely signed and didn’t get into the details. All he needs is HR Manager’s approval.
This is a clear case of discrepancy and misusing the benefit for personal reasons. The logic the HR Dept, came up with was:
• If you need to donate blood on 29th April, which the Doctors’ letter conveys, why do you take leave on 30th April for the same?? [Science fiction made its way into the discussion to add humour to the situation – what, do you possess a time machine? To get back in times?]
• If say on 30th April you donate blood, 1st May you get time to rest till 3:00 p.m. when you were recalled. It’s ample time to get the dizziness out. But then donation happened on 29th April, so why take 1st as a Leave day??
• If all cases are bypassed, why do you still require time to recuperate on 2nd May now?
The HR Dept. refused to endorse his Leave, plus we got him marked absent on 30th April as well as 1st May half-day. On further probing we realized, he quoted he was donating blood to his father; but his father never underwent any surgery! If not for the Eagle eyes of the HR Manager, he would have gotten away with it, and indulged in personal activities!
One of the ways Organizations encourage this deed is by awarding a ‘Leave’ to the volunteer, a day after he/she donated blood. This helps in taking rest if a person feels some weakness, or dizziness [which I believe happens for some while to all]. But what if people start taking advantage out of this special Leave granted, for personal reasons, and it’s then that HR needs to scrutinize the case with Eagle eyes.
Citing an example of availing such Leave grants for personal use; whereby an employee brought a letter from a doctor stating blood donation on 29th April. The employee also brought along a letter asking for grant of Leave. The contents of the letter were however as following:
• The employee needs to donate blood to his father on 29th April. [The medical transcript also cites the same date]
• On 30th April he lets his incharge know that he needs to donate blood, so he won’t come on 30th.
• On 1st May he takes leave, availing the Leave award, to overcome weakness, however there’s a breakdown of some machine in his department; and he is recalled post lunch hours for Maintenance purposes.
• On 2nd May he comes to the HR Dept., to get a Leave granted for 2nd May as he was called for duty on 1st.
• The letter written by the employee bears the signature of his dept. incharge’s approval, who merely signed and didn’t get into the details. All he needs is HR Manager’s approval.
This is a clear case of discrepancy and misusing the benefit for personal reasons. The logic the HR Dept, came up with was:
• If you need to donate blood on 29th April, which the Doctors’ letter conveys, why do you take leave on 30th April for the same?? [Science fiction made its way into the discussion to add humour to the situation – what, do you possess a time machine? To get back in times?]
• If say on 30th April you donate blood, 1st May you get time to rest till 3:00 p.m. when you were recalled. It’s ample time to get the dizziness out. But then donation happened on 29th April, so why take 1st as a Leave day??
• If all cases are bypassed, why do you still require time to recuperate on 2nd May now?
The HR Dept. refused to endorse his Leave, plus we got him marked absent on 30th April as well as 1st May half-day. On further probing we realized, he quoted he was donating blood to his father; but his father never underwent any surgery! If not for the Eagle eyes of the HR Manager, he would have gotten away with it, and indulged in personal activities!
good one...
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