Don't call out from work?

Two days before Hurricane Irma was expected to hit South Florida, Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) urged residents to flee inland as though their lives depended on it.

“You need to go now,” he said at a news conference Friday. “This is a catastrophic storm that our state has never seen.”

Then Scott shifted his attention to Florida’s business owners. “Please,” he said, “be compassionate with your employees as they prepare for this storm and evacuate.”

On the previous evening, however, the Naples Daily News ran a story about a city manager who plans to fire an employee who refused to work through the wind and rain.

“When we hire you, you sign a statement saying you might be required to work through hurricane events," Naples City Manager Bill Moss told the Post on Friday. 

Moss said the city is supplying both housing and child care to employees during the hurricane.

“Generally speaking, we feel if we’re not here, there’s no one else to help people or get a city restored," he said. "There’s really no safe place right now."

Terminating a city employee who shirked hurricane duties is legal in Florida, as it would be in other states. So is dismissing many workers who fail to show up for work at a private business, even if they'd hit the road to avoid floods.

Read more at The Washington Post