My workplace has recently started taking volunteers for scheduled meetings where workplace improvement ideas from employees are welcomed. I appreciate the opportunity for us to speak, but I'm also smart enough to realize I shouldn't say anything that could potentially get my name on the Ole Shitlist (Hopefully it's not already).
The only thing I'm going to suggest is that we should have sick days. We currently have none. If you get sick and miss unexpectedly, you get penalized with a “point”. 4 points in 180 days is a write-up. 5 points in 180 days is termination. We have PTO that's accrued throughout the year and 2 “floating holidays”, but even if you get sick and use either PTO or a floating holiday, you get a point.
My idea is fairly restrained. Instead of 2 floating holidays, we should get 1 floating holiday and 1 sick day a year, a sick day being defined as a day we can use when we're sick without receiving a point. Just 1 sick day (better than none). This in my opinion preemptively squashes the objection of “OH! But people will abuse sick days!”
I attend this meeting in about a week. Any ideas on how I should present this idea to the big bosses with the possibility of them actually being receptive?