• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Eh, doesn’t those depend on how often I get sick? That’s the idea, no? A doctor signs me off being unable to work?

    • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No. If you have paid time off it is part of your compensation package. A better way to look at it is if you work 52 weeks a year and your employment includes a week of PTO, then you are effectively due 53 weeks of pay and any time you take off is subtracted from that number.

      • RBWells@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Where I work (not California) this time is “use it or lose it” so no. Our comp is 52 weeks a year and we can take up to 3 weeks (not consecutive) of that off for whatever if scheduled or unscheduled for sickness. 1 week if you are new.

        • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Still yes. The point is that PTO is part of your compensation package. If you don’t use it you are not receiving that compensation. Put it another way: if part of your compensation package is a company vehicle (just like everyone else in the company) but you work from home, are you going to consider that fair compensation?

      • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        In countries that do not exploit workers, if the doctor writes you a sick leave, you are at sick leave for that time. If doctor writes you 6 months, you can be away 6 months with full pay. In general company pays some initial weeks, and the system pays the rest.

        So there is no max or min.

        Also in many countries if you are in your paid vacation, and you get sick, you move for sick leave, and those days do not count as used vacation.

      • MudMan@kbin.social
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        Here specifically it’s three days off (each time, not total) and then you need to get an official doctor declaration to stay home longer (which makes sense, if you’ve been sick for several days you should see a doctor anyway, and it’s free, so why not).

        And if the doctor says you’re too sick to work, even if it’s due to your mental health then you’re off for as long as they say, with a compensation scheme that involves both your company and the government dealing with the cost for certain periods and so on.