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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
There are now 11 Federal holidays. They are in addition to vacation time and sick leave. A Federal employee with at least 15 years of service gets 11 paid holidays, 13 days of sick leave, and 26 days of vacation time. But, in my opinion, they don't cost the taxpayer anything because most Federal offices are so overstaffed that days off don't have much effect on productivity. The largest issue for a Federal manager is sick leave, because an employee can accumulate 13 days per year with no limit. So, after 20 years, many Federal employees have enough sick leave to be absent from the job for more than a year, and the supervisor cannot replace them. This would never work in the private sector.
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If you could call in sick for a year and get paid, could you in good conscience do it? I couldn’t. Plus, wouldn’t the employer check to see if the employer is really sick? Taking the days without being sick would be fraud, wouldn’t it? I was a professor at a state university for 34 years. I accumulated over 450 days of sick time. If I’d become seriously ill, that sick leave would have been a life saver. I thought I’d simply lose it all when I retired, which is what usually happened. Instead, the state universities, wanting to get rid of those of us who were old and in the way, offered to pay us for one fourth of our sick days in a lump sum if we would retire at the end of the school year. A lot of us took that offer. That’s the only way I could afford to move to The Villages. The rest of those sick days went unused.