My parents live in Baltimore in a Retirement Community which uses local teenagers as “servers” in their dining rooms. Some of the teens were unable to get to work, so the retirees filled in. The teens that were already at work when the snowstorm hit, were set up in available rooms with cots and spent the night. The buses didn’t run for three days in Baltimore.
Don’t know how it was in DC other than photos I’ve googled. If a person CALLED and explained that they couldn’t get out of their house/apartment, the most the hospital should do is make the person take a “personal” or “vacation” day for those days.
Otherwise, this is perhaps one of the FEW times a “union” is a good thing. However, if a person was seen elsewhere and claimed she couldn’t get to work that day . . . that’s a different story and does deserve some kind of penalty. But NOT firing, in my highly opinionated opinion.
At Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore we were only paid for the two days the city shut and we had to use our personal time for this. For the other 3 days of the storm we were told we could not use our personal days to cover our time. So what happen we did not get paid. Even after calling work to get transpotaion and one even called me back, I still was not paid. Now how greatful is that.