Like several other commenters, the first thing I noted was that this deed was applied to "Subway" and not to "the manager". I suspect that it is not Subway's policy to force employees to work when sick.

A great number of the competition rules of the martial art I participate in were made because individual fighters decided to make a game of 'pushing the envelope'. So a rule had to be made against things that should have been common sense - and the rest of us have to live with those rules 30 years later. The lack of common sense evidenced by such managers as this one act as entry points for people to leverage rules that constrain us all. One example of this is the pro-handicapped regs...that make it almost impossible to fire a handicapped person. So who would want to hire a handicapped person under those strictures? This sort of regulation benefits neither the employer nor the employee.

Incidents like this are what causes those rules to be enacted. And, since the world is indeed full of petty scumbags who demonstrate that they cannot operate without such rules, we spiral into an increasingly regulated world.

I have no answer to this; only a complaint against the universe.

Jan

First let me point out that Subway's are independently owned franchises. Each state has its own laws on employee treatment and breaks. If the Manager broke the law he should be fired and prosecuted, however to make the statement "SUBWAY" would be incorrect.

Also NOBODY forces you to work anyplace in this country. If you do not like how management treats you LEAVE and go work someplace else. You ONLY get treated as badly as YOU as an individual permit. I recently was annoyed beyond tolerance by a manager at Experis, a Manpower Group company, micro-managed by a guy who is a blithering idiot. I replied to his email, CC'd other management and placed my immediate notice. Telling them I do not need treated nor will be treated like this.

Stop whining grow a pair and get a new job.

That manager is history. Well, maybe after his shift ends.
If this was the government they would "take responsibility" and promise an investigation, but the hard drives containing the evidence would be damaged and destroyed without backup, and after 50 years there would still be books and tv programs speculating on the grassy knoll.
The market will handle this issue quickly.
How about a competing free market banking/economic/political system?

I understand the meaning, but I will quibble on one little nit. I only use the word "force" if they have a threat of violence. If someone says keep working or I'll shoot you, that's forcing. If she says keep working or I'll never pay you again, that's not force. It's not nice, but it's really not force.

Because of the current (un)employment situation, minimum wage workers are readily available. As a result, employees who are line workers are treated as temps even if they had been employed there for several years, and can or will be fired at the whim of their boss, be he/she an owner or supervisor. One more consequence of the Obama economy. If the $15 per hour nonsense goes into effect, watch the unemployment rate skyrocket.

Isn't Subway also the place we may get sick looking at huge pictures of Michelle Obama?
I am more concerned how many people got sick because the idiot manager let this person continue to serve food. How irresponsible of the whole management team. Yes, she could have walked out, got fired, but the fact she eventually passed out, says she was sick, and so are a lot of customers likely.

My son has a friend who works at a Subway, just having quit the embezzling boss (who will likely be charged) of another Subway in another town, many towns about the Birmingham area. Punk ex-boss actually told my son's friend, "You can't leave. I'm your boss." My son's friend retorted, "No, you're not. Bye."
A far older memory is now triggered. I was in line in my car at a Taco Bell. Before me in a car was a kid showing off to his girlfriend by giving whoever was on the other end of the intercom a hard time. I left the line and found another fast food joint. Why? Figured some Taco Bell employee may still be mad enough to spit into my order also.

I read some comments also and if they had a union or benefits or Rolls Royce to escort them to and from work this person would not have p)(ked all over my Sandwich. Something in this story sounds fishy and it is not the tuna. I also think the Manager could be at question. Of course I have been wrong before, but to force me to work no matter the situation. Not!

Is there an article connected to this? I would like to see the story.

As a general rule, however, if I was a manager I would not want to keep a sick employee on the job. And as a customer I would not want to eat anything prepared or served by someone who was coughing or sneezing all over it.