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Originally Posted by ricthemic
Who in the private sector got a check at the end of each year for sick days they did not use? Or even better, how about a huge check prior to retirement for all the sick/personal/vacation days you "did not" use during your total years as federal, state and local goverment employees do and this is unfortunitly just one of many seriously sad but true examples of how we are headed for a Europeon type crisis.
PLEASE, someone in the gov tell me why you get a check for unused sick days when nobody in the private sector paying your salary does.
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I work for the Air Force. I don't "get a check" at the end of the year for unused sick time. I'm allowed to accrue it (I've yet to hear of a limit) and you're expected to use that in place of Short Term Disability (which isn't offered here but WAS offered at all my private sector employers). Locally, those kind of perks have been vanishing from town and state jobs (I live in NH).
The one perk I *can* get from sick time is when I retire. *If* I have enough sick time, I can "credit" it to my service time when it comes to calculating a pension. In other words, if I've put in 20.5 years and I have 6 months of sick time (which means not missing a day for 12 years), I could put that half year towards my service time and get a 21% pension instead of a 20% pension. This would approximately be an additional $16 per week at my pay grade.