Workplace Sick Leave Policy - How Does Yours Work?

[chickened]

I am self employed you get sick you work but get less done.

 

[zzGypsy]

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not sure I quite understood this, but where I work, since it's all personal leave and not separated by vaccation/sick time, it's continuously accrued. the only limit is that you can only roll over 35 days to the next year, so if you've accrued more than 35 days unused time, you'll lose some of that on your hire anniversary.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Every place I worked had things differently.

Some were per year. Jan 1 you got 10 days of vacation and 10 days of sick leave. Neither accrued, if you didn't use them, they went away. Under these circumstances, it actually seems to encourage "mental health" days. Other places I worked, you accrued leave as you worked, so for every 40 hours worked, you got maybe one vacation day, and half a sick day. I can't really remember the numbers. Most of the places with that system have an amount you can carry over, up to a certain number of hours. One of the places, accrued sick time counted towards more pay and benefits at retirement. Accrued sick time could also be donated to someone in need. This particular feature is really nice for people with serious illness. My BIL worked for the State of Alaska, and all his cancer sick days came from accrued and donated leave.

In the last two places my dh has worked, there is no real policy for sick time. You take it if you need it, and unless it is excessive, no one much cares. I think the managers probably have to keep track of the amount of sick leave taken by the department, but it mostly seems to be a honor system. I think this has worked well for those companies.

One of the best systems I've seen, from a now defunct company, was a "personal" account. This account had a set amount of money for each employee, and it did go up with salary and responsibilities. From this account, you bought health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation and sick days. It had the rewards for not squandering sick time built into it. The less sick time you took, the more money you had for vacation and other things. They may have included a basic employee-only insurance, and any additional could be purchased out of the fund, but I don't really remember.

Every place I've worked, if you used up your sick time, you were out of luck until you accrued more. Most places would let you take one extra day over accumulated leave. When I got very sick and missed almost 6 weeks of work, I had to take it as time without pay. I'm just grateful that they held my job for me.

 

[Avalon1984]

We don’t have an actual policy yet. If you are sick you can stay home but we are so short staffed, people usually don’t like it even if they don’t say anything. I had I think 2 days so far this year because of a stomach flu and a broken back but sick leave for me is kind of pointless since the horses need to be fed and cleaned whether I am healthy, sick or indifferent, so I might as well drag myself into the office. I was offered 2 days of bereavement though after losing one of my horses yesterday. That was neat.

 

[Desirai]

I work part time at Walmart .. I'm not allowed paid sick leave til I've been there for 2 years.

If I get injured on the job, that's covered.

 

[KenK]

We have a take it if you need it policy. They don't care how many days you take off only how many hours you bill. Can't bill if you aren't at work so it all kind of evens out.

 

[PaulaSB12]

I work 12 hour shifts as well. We get 22 days holiday increasing after 5 years by 1, 10 by 2 and there is another after 15 but cant remember how many. We also got an extra day's holiday for the royal wedding and will be getting another one next year for the Queen's jubilee. As for sickness if you don't have too many days sick you get paid from day one of your sickness with 16 days allowed in any one period (that basically means a month) if you have been of sick a lot you loose 2 days wages. As for berievement leave for parents, siblings,children and grandchildren its 4 days with pay. For inlaws uncles aunts and grandparents its 2 days.

 

[sonew123]

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1.) every year on Jan 1 all sick leave starts fresh-15 days allowed-whatever you had left over from last year goes into a spill over until you reach 90 days..You are maxed at that point and can no longer earn more nor get paid for unused time. You are NOT paid for it once you resign. You are however paid for all unused vaca time that you have earned up until the day you resign.