Self-quarantine! they said I could - Wire Department Graybar Employee Review

4.0
Dec 5, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good employee owned company takes care of their employees. Some HR workers do not know that what company policy is when it comes to self quarantine and vacation days

Cons

At the beginning of the covid pandemic crisis we were pulled into a meeting and told that if we wanted to self quarantine we could using our vacation days until they expired after that all other days missed the rest of the year would be no pay. I did this in March using all by vacation days and then missed a day in August it was fired we're missing too many days

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Graybar Response
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Thank you for your review and bringing up this topic. We would be interested in hearing more to understand this better. Please feel free to reach out at reviewfeedback@graybar.com. We also recommend following up with local HR leaders if there are questions or concerns with how this was handled. In general, we can say that Graybar has been mindful to offer support and benefits once we learned of COVID. In the spring, Graybar announced additional COVID leave and days off for sickness, exposure or to care for a family member. We have posted the details for employees on our COVID internal informational site. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention so we can be sure our communication lines stay open.

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