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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 12, 2019, 10:10:42 pm ---I also hope the hacking woman keeps the germs to herself. I don't know how it is at your office, but at mine we all have laptops and the ability to work from home, so there's really no reason to come into the office sick.
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That's the way it is, here, too, but if I'm too sick to come into the office, I'm not about to work at home.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 12, 2019, 10:10:42 pm --- I get between 5-6 weeks to be used as vacation time or sick time, so there's no reason to go to work sick.
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Unless you want to take a long vacation! Or unless you get really sick, God forbid, and need the time later.
I'm not defending people who go to work sick, especially if they can work from home and not take PTO. But I wish companies would separate sick days and vacation days. Mine also lumps them altogether like that.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 13, 2019, 09:18:47 am ---I'm not defending people who go to work sick, especially if they can work from home and not take PTO. But I wish companies would separate sick days and vacation days. Mine also lumps them altogether like that.
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Ours was that way, and then the company went to a "lump" system. We were told the company had to do this because of a new city ordinance. (Don't ask me why or how the city has the authority to regulate employers in this way within its own bounds. I don't know the answer to that. It just does.)
But doing it this way simplifies record keeping for the company. Formerly, we had two separate time codes for reporting sick time vs. vacation time. Now the company bean counters only have to deal with one PTO code. It saves the bean counters time, and time is money.
I don't have a problem with having all PTO being lumped together because it also saves me having to keep track of sick time vs. vacation time.
It just seems simpler all around to me to have one PTO rather than sick and vacation.
brianr:
It would be illegal in both NZ and Australia to lump them together. In NZ the minimum is 5 days per year sick leave (even if you only work 1 day per week) while in Australia it is 10 days but that is for a person working 5 days per week, so a person working 1 day per week only gets 2 days sick leave (now called sick and carers leave so you can take time off for a sick child).
As a teacher, my vacation days were of course fixed (about 55 days) but I had 22 days sick/carers pay on full pay and another 22 days on half pay per year. I think 20 days accrued to the next year and, as I never took more than 5 days in any one year, I had a huge amount when I left but I did not get pay for them.
I only took it as carer's leave once when my mother (aged in late 80's by then) moved home. Some women teachers seem to have a sick child every 2 weeks and knew in advance (as they booked all their classes for the day into the library which annoyed me as the teacher/librarian).
I did occasionally have a "sick of work" day but never more than 2 or 3 in any one year and, as said, never more than 5 sick days in any one year.
brianr:
And both Australia and NZ have a compulsory minimum 4 weeks annual vacation leave per year.
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