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Originally Posted by MandoMan
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.
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We weren't allowed to stack more than 2 years worth of sick time, and we got 1 day's pay for each month worked in sick days. That was back when I was still "of childbearing age" so once a month, like clockwork, I'd get a raging migraine and cramps. If that day was a weekday, you better believe I called in sick.
When I left that particular job after almost 5 years, I was not allowed to get paid for any sick days I'd earned and hadn't taken. That was a union job as a secretary for the phone company.
All my retail jobs allowed us to stack sick time for up to 18 months, depending on the company. But we only earned 1 hour's sick time for every 40 hours worked, whether you were full or part time. So if I worked 2 weeks at 20 hours per week, I earned 1 hour of sick time. But I had to fight for it in one of the jobs, where no one got any sick time at all, but the -state- mandated that they give it.