Woohoo!!! I got an hour of sleep!!!

[cichlid2006]

this may be a silly question but what do you mean by "sick leave saved up"?

here we take a day off if your sick and thats that, Americans seem to make sick leave sound like a right, like your vacation days you get every year.
as if you, for example, can only be sick for say 20 days a year like you may only have 20 days vacation per year.

 

[LowCel]

this may be a silly question but what do you mean by "sick leave saved up"?

here we take a day off if your sick and thats that, Americans seem to make sick leave sound like a right, like your vacation days you get every year.
as if you, for example, can only be sick for say 20 days a year like you may only have 20 days vacation per year.

Where I work we start out getting 10 hours a month vacation and 12 hours a month sick. After five years you start getting 12 hours a month vacation, After ten years it goes up to 14 hours a month, and after 15 years it goes up to 16 hours a month vacation. The sick always stays the same.

You can carry over as much sick as you can save, we have long timers that have 4,000 hours or so saved up. I can only carry over 240 hours vacation from one year to the next.

Not all places do it this way. However I work for the state government so instead of getting paid a decent wage I get leave time.

There is one catch, if you abuse your time and end up going off of payroll you can be fired on the second occurence.

 

[cichlid2006]

so if your sick in your first year for 13 hours in one month, you will only get paid for 12??

no matter ive just read an article about it. pretty harsh system over there. lets hope the bugs are understanding when you run out of sick time.

 

[LowCel]

so if your sick in your first year for 13 hours in one month, you will only get paid for 12??

no matter ive just read an article about it. pretty harsh system over there. lets hope the bugs are understanding when you run out of sick time.

No, the leave time adds up. You get 12 hours a month, so 144 hours a year. If you don't take any after two years you have 288 hours, etc, etc.