Can employers just make up thier attendance policy as they go. I mean we have one in print, but according to who u are it varies. Our attendence policy says alot, but I believe it can only be understood by the person that wrote it. I have been written up for having doctors excuses before. It was a friday, I woke up and went to the doctor, missing work. AFound out I had pink eye. Highly contagous. God meds and stuff. Doctor told me to come back in 3 day. Called off work, told them why. Told them the doctor wrote me out for a few days. Went back to work on wensday the next week and then got wrote up for being out. I was then told that in order to avoid getting wrote up in the future, i had to get the doctor to write me out for 7 days or more. Basically take a LOA.

I also take my son during the summer, taught his to swim this past summer. Well kids will be kids, he was running at the pool. I said to him, stop running before u fall and get hurt. To make a long story short, he fell, and bit his tongue off, literally. I took him to the emergency room. By the time we left there it was around 4 am. I had to be to work at 7. After being up all night with a screaming 7 year old getting his tongue stiched up, i didnt go to work. I called off work, told them why. And was informed on the phone that I would be wrote up when I came back in. This was an emergency situation, I was the only person allowed by law to allow the doctors to do anything to my son. I almost lost my job over this.

Then thier are others that have emergencies, or get wrote out of work by a doctor for a few day, less than 7. And they dont get wrote up. This place is upsetting me and other greatly, what can we do? Thier has to be some laws that they r violating here. How can i find out? Should I just call the EEOC or the Labor Board on them. This is an employment at will company. They have no hand book what so ever. We dont even know what we can and cannot do, until someone does it and get in trouble for it. But that dont mean anything, because others will do the same thing and nothing will happen. HEPL!!!!! :confused:

How long have you been there and how many employees are there within a 75 mile radius?

While there is no requirement that employers be fair or stick to the written policies, there is a chance that some of the days you took off may qualify for FMLA. It is iffy from what you describe, but that would be the only legal bar to holding time off against you. Otherwise, a doctor's note has no force in law what so ever. Unless you are being singled out because of a legally protected characteristic (like race, sex, religion, etc.) it is legal just unfair.