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I'm all for sick days but not if you can save them up. The cops in my town used to retire with a career's worth of sick days saved which they get paid out in ca
by rr888 4y ago
I'm all for sick days but not if you can save them up. The cops in my town used to retire with a career's worth of sick days saved which they get paid out in cash (at their final salary). Now I think they get paid annually instead. https://www.nj.com/news/local/2009/12/parsippany_officers_retiring_w.html https://www.nj.com/news/local/2009/12/parsippany_officers_re...
- kelnos 4y agoThat's weird; why should workers get paid for sick days? I get the idea of being paid out for unused vacation days, but sick days? Makes no sense to me.
- undersuit 4y agoIf I don't get to cash out my sick days(my employer offers a 4:1 cash out option when I leave employment) I might as well use them. Getting rid of that incentive would be a reason to call in sick more often.
- calcifer 4y ago> why should workers get paid for sick days? This is such an American thing to say. The question wouldn't even occur to most European folk.
- zamadatix 4y agoTo be clear they are referring to the "being paid for sick days not actually taken" not the general concept of "still being paid while you are sick". It's a reasonable question IMO, you should be incentivised to use your sick days not try to bank them for a cash out at the end. They are as much for your fellow workers as you.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoAre you allowed to cash out your sick days in Europe? It seems actually anti-worker in a way, giving people a financial incentive to go into work anyways when they're sick.
- pornel 4y agoThere's no allotment of sick days in European countries. If you're sick, you don't go work, for as long as needed. You do get guaranteed holidays, but sick days explicitly do not count as holidays. If you quit, you get paid for unused holidays.
- herbstein 4y ago> If you're sick, you don't go work, for as long as needed For reference, I can only be legally fired if I'm sick for more than 186 days in a 365 day period.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoOh that's interesting. That's how a lot of jobs here work too (more common with white collar ones). Although some jobs (especially those with a pension) that have a sick day allotment will give you a credit for unused sick days. Eg my dad retired one month early because he had unused vacation and sick days. Some jobs also give you a lump of time off and say "this is paid time off, you can use it for sick time OR vacation". But that's only for short sicknesses, like if you need 1-2 days for a cold. If you're sick for more than 5 days you get paid by the government instead of your employer
- hgfdhgdfhgdfh 4y agoThe average Union Pacific rails employee makes 3 times as much as "most European folk."
- Karsteski 4y agoThis is such an absurd thing to say, it reads like satire
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- batiudrami 4y agoI think they mean “get paid out” for unused sick leave at the end of employment rather than getting paid for sick leave at all. In Australia your sick leave accumulates but you don’t get paid out when you leave, while your accumulated annual leave does get paid out.
- rqtwteye 4y agoPolice and firefighter unions are very good at negotiating. It probably helps that their counterparts don't really have any stake in the negotiation.
- vondur 4y agoI work for a state institution. We bank our sick time up to a year. So once I retire I should have enough sick time to cover one years salary, and I'll still be technically employed.