Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Pharmacy
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Pharmacy [18 VAC 110 ‑ 20]
Action Addressing hours of continuous work by pharmacists
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 1/29/2016
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1/4/16  12:44 pm
Commenter: Drug Topics

Age Discrimination and the Use of Pharmacy Metrics
 

Anonymous Apr 3, 2015

I am 68 years old and after 6 months working at a CVS pharmacy that had been open for 10 months I was given a choice of having my hours cut from 30 hours/week to 5-10 hours/week. This store has never met it's metric goals. This was part of their solution!? I was told that my job performance was fine. Also at a earlier date we were told that we could only take at most a 15 minute break to eat something or eat while working or not at all. This is when working 10-14 hour shifts. The possibity for med errors increase under these conditions. It is my opinion that CVS does not care about employee or patient health. I do not understand how stopping the sale of tobacco but continue to sell alcohol shows real concern over a persons health.

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