Sick Time Policy

apeyface

My company is looking to implement sick time. The bosses want to give non-exempt ee’s 3-days per year with a payoff of unused time at year-end. For non-exempt, they don't want a set amount of days. Their thinking is when ee’s have a bank of time, they'll be more prone to use it so by not having a set amount of days we’ll have fewer exempt absences. I argued we still have to have a policy for the exempt that caps their time or we could find ourselves exposed to as much as 12-weeks of leave for someone qualifying for FMLA. I also don’t know how to go about communicating this rather open-ended policy to the exempt ee’s and supervisors approving this time off to ensure there won’t be abuse. Any of you have sick time policies and/or advice you can share?