Do you go to work when you are sick?

[duque]

It has happened Guru, of course, but then it is up to the Company to prove it and take disciplinary actions if necessary.

[tiffanyctd]

That's it, I'm moving to Spain!!!

Tif

[misslynn]

Spain needs to put that on their recruiting brochures, they'd catch quite a few eyes with that.  Wow.

Interesting note about what increments you can take your benefit time in, with the sick and vacation time we have to use it in 2-hour increments (2 hours, 6 hours, etc.).

[countrigal]

Where I work, we accrue AL (amounts determined by how long you've been here -- I'm currently at 12 hours a month earned -- 6 hours every 2 weeks... basic is 4 hours/2 weeks and max is 8 hours/2 weeks), and can be stored until you have 240 hours and then anything over that is use or lose.  I'm hoping to someday soon get to where I have to take all my earned hours every year, but that'll be a while since I end up using some of my AL to stay home with kids too.

Our leave - both AL and SL - can be taken at 15 minute intervals, which helps a lot when you're trying to save it up.

CountriGal
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[ozbound]

Unfortunately, yes. For one thing, there is no one else in my office trained to do my job yet--I'm sure they'd muddle through but I'd rather not test it unless it was really an emergency! That and we don't really have "sick days" - you could take a vacation day but I don't have vacation yet. I'm salaried so I don't know exactly how they would deal with a sick day if I did have to take one.