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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
My only beef with my company is that, when people's kids are sick, they're allowed to take a "sick day" off to stay home and take care of their kids. When my parents are sick and don't speak English, I have to take a vacation day to take them to the doctors. Why the double standard?
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Most sick day plans and other benefits are about employee retention and "Work Life Balance" Parents have been a well represeneted group in the work place over the past 50 years compared to non-parents. Therefore when companies draw up retention plans they look keeping employees with kids happy as a more important part of the retention plan than those without kids. Also young people represent a lot of the single people and new employees are less valued than long term employees.
Over time as there are more non-parents in the work force retaining them will be a priority and a shift will take place. This is already happening with the implementation of flex time and flex days over the old fashioned notion of sick time.