My company gives 6 sick days a year that are gone if unused on Dec 31st. I thought that was a bit much and have been pushing for them to change it to something like 4 personal days. We also have short and long term disability which I think is the more appropriate to deal with a catastrophic illness. There is an arguement that long term disability is not enough money, 60% of salary I think, but the solution should be finding a way to top up LTD instead of caching sick days.
As a healthy employee though I have a hard time hearing about 15 sick days a year for a normal healthy employee. Most people I work with might call in sick once or twice a year. We can't use the time for appointments either and have to make up the hours if we leave the office during the day.
Last edited by GP_Matt; 03-24-2013 at 07:17 AM.
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