Wait you guys have unlimited sick time with a doctors note?
And I guess societal pressure and pressure from management will keep people going in. Not gonna get that promotion or raise if you’re always missing work.
Still seems like a good policy. But I think people should get like 10 sick days without a doctors note. Going to the doctor sick seems like a great way to spread the sickness and I think people need mental health days too. Actually we should be working like 30 hours a fucking week and give people a living wage but thats another conversation.
They’ve been spraying the streets of Wuhan for some time.
Troops are also on the streets, “escorting” people back to their houses if they venture out without permission (one person per family every few days is allowed out for food).
Paid Sick time is no good though when it’s like 10 days or 15 days or whatever. People still come in. Because they want to “save their sick time.” Unlimited takes away that incentive.
I have unlimited sick time, but mostly we’re encouraged to work from home so as not to spread anything. I take 1 or 2 sick days per year (mostly to go skiing) and work from home sick a few times here and there. If anyone on my team comes in and they’re obviously sick I send them home.
Yes, it’s one area of employment law that hasn’t been radically destroyed by the right…yet.
Though as people say there are pressures on people to go in sick a) to prove how devoted they are and b) because a lot of time off sick may be used against them in their performance review.
I think people definitely need to be able to take sick days for mental health reasons when they aren’t actually sick, and I don’t think that should eat up all their vacation days either.
Most people work shit jobs they hate and a day off here or there would probably help mental health a lot, but if those sick days eat away all their vacation time then they won’t want to use it.
At my current job we get around 13 sick days per year and between 20 and 27 vacation days per year depending on how long you’ve been there. It’s great in theory EXCEPT when you retire or leave the system, you get paid out for your sick days, and they also count towards your service credit for retirement… So nobody ever wants to use their damned sick days when they’re sick, especially as they approach retirement age.
And if I actually end up sick and taking legit sick days, I generally won’t use any for mental health (i.e. - skiing). But mostly I use 1 or 2 sick days per year total, and that’s all. So I don’t feel guilty about using the occasional sick day as a day off.