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Originally Posted by ken0042
This keeps coming up in this thread, so I will ask those of you with less than 10 sick days per year; do you also have short term disability coverage? I ask because when I started a new job I found out we had a very high number of sick days per year; a number that I thought was quite silly.
Then I found out that we didn't have Short Term Disability; so it made sense. The extra sick days were to cover that mising coverage. I also found that with no ST; our Long Term Disability premiums were a lot more than at my previous job.
I'm not saying I'm siding with the postal union; but anybody who is complaining needs to re-examine what they have themselves. If you aren't doing an "apples to apples" comparison; the numbers are meaningless.
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I understand how that works. The problem I see is that some people seem to think they should be rewarded for not using up all of the sick days. But to me it is an insurance for sickness. Otherwise it has no value.