Posted on 06/02/2015 10:15:43 AM PDT by MichCapCon
State of Michigan employees took an average of 10.7 days of sick leave during the 2014 fiscal year, according to an annual report. Those 10.7 sick days are in addition to 18 days of vacation time the average state employee used.
ForTheRecord says: According to the most recent available U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, private sector workers took on average 2 to 5 sick days a year in 2009. Leisure and hospitality and construction workers took 2 sick days a year on average while education and health services workers took up to 5 sick days a year on average.
i’m shocked......
In the last 10 years not working in an office, I’ve had 5 sick days.
What’s a “sick day”?
You must be self-employed! There are no sick days for the self employed.
Clearly, public sector employment is unhealthy. Maybe as bad as smoking.
A sick day is the one before the obit goes in the paper.
From the liberal point of view there can only be one solution to this problem; gov’t employee’s get mandatory thirty days paid vacation and twenty days paid sick leave.
Plus pregnant workers and their spouse will receive paid leave during the last six months of pregnancy and one year after delivery, those whose spouse work in the private sector will receive the same by federal law, and LGBTQ et al will be given the same if adopting or if thinking about it.
By contrast my daughter teaches in a charter school, and she’s proud as heck to have gotten a bonus for missing zero days of work this year.
I can’t help it if they throw Sick Days at me! I get a day and a quarter a month.
I am under the Teacher’s Retirement plan here in Georgia and we get retirement credit for unused Sick days.
I have almost a year and a half of sick leave saved up.
Doing everything I can to save it so I can retire early.
I’m even having problems using all my Annual, but, they’ll pay me for that when I go.
Full-timers accumulate 4 hrs sick leave per 80 hours worked (same goes for those on a less-than-80 "intermittent" schedule). That works out to 13 days per year, most years, but as there's 52 weeks and one day (or two in a leap) every 14 years or so there's an extra pay period in the calendar year.
“it’s in the contract”
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