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Sick Leave Policy

FrenchieFrenchie 116 Posts
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Currently, we don't pay for absences due to sickness. We do have an STD benefit that will pay a percentage of the associate's weekly gross, but for an illness it doesn't pay until day 8.

I would like to create a policy that will provide pay for sick days, but would like to keep it simple.

Any suggestions??
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  • marcmarc 3,126 Posts
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    EEs in our shop earn 12 days per year, pro-rated for each pay period.
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  • C WilsonC Wilson 122 Posts
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    We recently went from 6 paid sick days which had to be used within a year to 4 PTO days. The reason for doing this was that there are always some employees who will take advantage and claim to be sick when they are not just to get a day off with pay. The good honest employees who rarely took a sick day were penalized for being honest.

    An employee may use the PTO days for any reason, but if it is used for any reason other than illness,they must obtain prior approval from their supervisor.
    If they are absent due to illness for 2 consecutive days we require a doctors note. During the first year of employment the employee may only take one PTO day per quarter.

    We do not allow days to carry over into the next year in order to keep the accounting as simple as possible.

    Cherrye





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