Posted on 05/11/2016 1:27:45 PM PDT by MichCapCon
The average state employee is not at work the equivalent of about one month out of the year, according to an annual report from the Michigan Civil Service Commission. The days off include 10.2 days of sick leave and 17.7 annual leave days, which includes vacation time.
ForTheRecord says: State employees were on the job about half a day more in the 2014-15 fiscal year than the previous year. In the 2013-2014 fiscal year, state employees took 10.7 days of sick leave in addition to 17.7 days of annual leave.
The way LTD works where I am is there is NO payout until I’ve been off work 6 months, then LTD kicks in.
I hoard my sick leave in a most miserly fashion indeed. I’m up around 700 hours or so at this point, but I won’t breathe easily until I’m over 1000.
I had a minor operation that took a LOT longer than expected to recover from, and I was glad to have the leave stashed away.
I *MIGHT* take a sick day every 4-6 months, usually for a doctor’s/dentist’s appt. but I try to schedule those on my days off or a morning after night shift.
HA HA! You hit the target!
I had 2 people in my office (not gov’t) who for 11+ years would be absent 1 to 2 days each month. Rarely did they go a whole month without doing so. One got fired by a new manager and the other quit a year and half later.
They would also had 4 weeks of vacation plus the holidays but still were absent.
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