Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days | Boing Boing
"Just to be clear: the idea that sick days somehow impose a financial burden of the company is a blatant lie of criminal proportions. It is a justification for wage theft — the most common and most costly form of burglary in America. Sick days are part of an employees' compensation package; therefore, sick days are just another form of money owed to the workers."
@knittingknots2 No, sick days are another form of US insanity when it comes to work culture. The idea that people should come to work when sick, out of fear that they might need those sick days later, is ridiculous. In normal countries you don't get "sick days", you get the "don't ever work sick" policy.
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What do you mean no sick days... we absolutely get sick days.
You are right americans tend to go to work to save their sickdays.. but thats largely because they would rather use sickdays on days they arent sick.
@freemo @migmit Lots of jobs give no paid sick leave, or limited sick days (I have had some of both, but no job with unlimited paid sick leave and I've seen people fired for being sick too often as well). It's still nobody's business whether they use them for a fever or a day's break if they have the leave, as long as they have them.
Every job I have ever had int he USA (which is almost all of them as an employee) had unlimited sick days AND my sick days were fully paid.
Depends ont he boss, and if you get paid for that time off... If you arent getting paid some bosses may truely be ok with any limit.
