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Combined sick/holiday leave is a rather shitty practice. I shouldn't have to cancel my vacation or take unpaid leave (if that were even an option) just because

• donw 15y ago
  I prefer the combined leave, and it makes more sense from a management perspective. When you have separate pools for sick and vacation time, your employees tend to fall surprisingly ill around national holidays, planned vacations, and major social events. With the combined pool, there's no pretense -- take time off when you want to. Of course, we're assuming that you get a sizable pool for both... four weeks (twenty paid days) is reasonable, although were it my company, I'd offer five. The 'four week notice' policy seems a little high for taking the odd Friday off, and is totally out the window when it comes to sick days, but overall their vacation policy sounds pretty kosher.
  • Nutella2 15y ago
    In practice the two kinds of leave are treated differently even if they're from the same pool since vacation has to be requested in advance and sick time usually cannot be requested in advance. Unless you can schedule your accidents, injuries, and infections 4 weeks out.
  • bluedanieru 15y ago
    If your employees are doing that it's time to clean house.
• amorphid 15y ago
  In a perfect world I agree with you. Practically speaking, the more time off you take the more expensive you are to an employer. You.van take off as many days as you want as long as you are willing to live with a lower salary and the employer is still able to get the work done.