Comments on: Disability: 4 ways fakers are cheating and winning

By: Peg

Peg — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:16:31 +0000

If they have at least a year service they go on FMLA but if it’s less than a year and we (the company) can do without them for a short period of time, we will grant up to 8 weeks of personal leave, no pay. I know that’s hard for people to do sometimes, no pay, but now days just having a job to come back to is worth it. If they feel and their Doctor feels it will be longer we have no choice but to release them but we have been known to bring them back once their released by their Doctor if we have postions available.

By: Peg

Peg — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:00:57 +0000

The controller was in on it, he had a cool contract also. Go figure!

By: Mslee502000

Mslee502000 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:59:26 +0000

We self insure for short term disability. Who would handle our investigations?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:06:57 +0000

I hope your Controller was fired once this was discovered.

By: DT

DT — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:59:40 +0000

Peg, I’m curious to know what happens to your employees if they need to go on medical leave but have less than 2 years of service? We are in the middle of writting our policy for those that don’t qualify for FMLA and would like to know how other handle it. Thanks.

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:11:15 +0000

You are much nicer than I would have been – that’s appauling considering his position. I think he’d make a good roommate with Bernard Madoff.

Amazing story!

By: Peg

Peg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:07:40 +0000

It made it to as far as our Attorney sending him a letter letting him know that we were going to discontinue his Insurance payments and we were submitting documents to our Short term Company letting them know of his scam and he needed to contact a Lawyer (in a nutshell). His wife called telling us that he no longer needed our Insurance, they had that covered. We still sent paperwork over to our short term company and that soon after was stopped since he could not provide more medical documents to them.
So it never went to court (which saved us money) and in the long run all of his benefits stopped, which is what I wanted to see happen. We didn’t care about any paybacks, we just wanted it stopped.
The only sad thing is, is he is probably scamming someone else right now.

By: CS

CS — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:58:31 +0000

Peg
What ended up happening to the case then? Did the company win? Or are you still battling it?

By: Peg

Peg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:53:39 +0000

This reminds me of our old HR Manager who played the company and the system by building up his own payroll (HR did the payroll at that time and everyone worked for him). Then he had a contract made up showing that if he left or was released at anytime we would pay out a “very good” severence package plus pay his Medical Insurance until he was 65, he was in his early 50’s when he left. And since he had built up his wages, when he went on Short-term and then long term disability he would be paid an higher amount while on leave. He did all this while telling us that he didn’t have much time to live because of a blood disease, finally when I was put in HR, the new Manager and myself took this to court to fight it because you guessed it…it’s been about 6 years and he’s still alive, must be a miracle!!!!!!!!!

Now HR now longers controls the payroll, accounting does and you have to have worked here 2 years before you can get short term leave.