Apparantly California Law is first 3 days are on the employee before wage compensation kicks in.
You are right about paperwork as just from what I can see on my side… division VP, regional, admin, employee health, etc are all involved…
Me not being at work today resulted in the hospital administrator’s very rare vacation starting today being cancelled and co-workers getting called last night to report early… etc… the ripple affect.
I’ve got the max accrued for PTO of 420 hours so not really a hit but I agree… if I was told take a few days off the process would have been likely the same without all the added involvement/expense of so many others… maybe not working so many back to back with deadlines factored too?
I did report it the morning it happened but said I’m sure I will feel better after a good night’s rest and and I did but by mid morning it was starting to flare up…
It was seeing me using crutches yesterday that changed everything.
I know back injuries are very tricky… thankfully with time many do well. Hand injuries we see a lot of as patients and limited dexterity affects many things.
The more I learn the more I realize how little I know…