My work is so weird! Sick Pay

[agnes]

I could have sworn I read some where we didn't have sick pay...apparently we do! And if you don't take it, they pay you! It was a nice little surprise on my check today.

My last company was a use it or lose it type of thing. Company before that, there wasn't any.

Awesomeness.

ETA: It was 28 hours of pay

[Deleted]

Nice to get at the holidays. Dh's company gives sick leave of 7 days per year but you can only cash out if it accumulates above a cap. Not a bad deal except that the cap is something like 578 hours. You would have to go more than 10 years without using a sick day to reach that cap. I am pretty sure that isn't going to happen.

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I wish my company would pay for them, we are a use it or lose it. I get 5 days (technically personal days, not sick days) I usually save them and take a planned week off so I get an extra vacation.

Anyway, good for you. Having that extra chunk of change at the end of the year would be nice!

[morningmania]

I wish we were paid out for unused time. I still have sick time & personal time left. I am barely sneeking in my 2 days I have left of vacation this year.
We use it or lose it.

[aspentosh]

We wish were paid for unused. That's an awesome benefit.

Side note: my mom had over 1600 hours (!!) of sick time when she retired. Unfortunately no payout for her either.

[chessie]

We used to get it then we were bought out by the French and now we don't get sick time which sucks.

[carfar]

Dec 5, 2012 19:02:06 GMT -5 kooshball said:

City of Seattle requires businesses to provide sick time. It's a nice thing to have.

So does San Francisco. At my company we get three days of use it or lose it sick time.

[agnes]

Dec 6, 2012 9:11:33 GMT -5 @246baje said:

Hmmm I think paying for sick time is a pretty good way to make sure people come in when they are sick.

I do not consider this to be a perk.

In my industry, it tends to not matter if you have sick time or not. People come in to work at end of the month NO MATTER WHAT.

Except here, from what I've seen, they don't guilt trip you for calling in sick. It's refreshing.