Sick pay without being sick!

geesh. what next. its bad enough that when they get out of office they are paid the same wages for the rest of their lives. and we have to pay that. i sure wish we did have that law. when i worked they had to make me take them and my vacation days or lose them at end of the yr.

Hmmm. In the company where I work, here in the Philippines, you get to accumulate sick days every month, and if you don't use it, they get to pay you at the end of the year.. so basically yeah, they pay you for not being sick. It's a good plan actually to get your people healthier and for them not to leave from work too much because it actually really pays to be healthy.

they work on differnt wages thn we do and thats why most states are broke as they give them selves raises when the rest of us dont get squat

well, that's the way it works in Texas too, except you can add that onto your retirement time... i.e.: if you have 160 hours of sick, you can add a month onto your time... didn't work for me, didn't have any sick leave or annual leave either, that building I was working in was MAKING me sick!

I have always thought it quite unfair that public workers do in fact get tremendously better sick leave policies than the people who pay their salaries in taxes. When I was in the profession of teaching, I knew several people who retired with YEARS of accumulated sick leave which they were able to collect with full salary upon their retirement...or convert to lifetime supplemental pension benefits.

I think that is pretty standard for local, state and federal government workers as well as emergency personnel. However, I do know that it is fairly common for other companies to do the same thing for their employees. The only thing is that we aren't paying anything extra as taxpayers for our government workers to get this option. They get sick time as employees anyway, just the same as any company employee. They are going to use it one way or another so it's not like there is more money coming out of the taxpayer's pocket if they save it up until their retirement.

Back many years ago we got paid for any sick days we didn't use at the end of the year. We only got 12 or one for each month we worked. I worked in a bean packing plant. That would have been a sweet deal.

My grandma did that. About 8 years ago when she retired. She had not missed a day of work for 10 years. They let her retire, and take those sick days as paid. So she retired, but they still paid her until those sick days ran out. But she was not a government worker.

That must be unique to Wisconsin. Every place I have been has a cap on the number of hours that you can accumulate. Here in Fl. they have recently cut them way back. People are very upset, but it was done anyway.

It does sound like a very good idea. The company I worked at gave me some comensation for that sort of thing when I took my early retirement. I got $10,000 and a retirement gift. It was a great company for their benefits and so forth and I just happened to luck into the job and was only there five years yet I got a pension too. Not bad, huh?

Hi Flowerchilde, What is new in all this. In India since independence ie 1947, every state and central government and also in most private companies , they give 20 half pay or 10 full pay medical leave , which keeps on accumulating, so if you work for 20 years in one organization you have 200 full pay leaves accumulated. Though they are not cashed out but when you grow old they do come in handy as it is but natural that most of us would need them because people are getting quite sick after 50.

That would be great if that sick pay without being sick is applied also here in the Philippines.

that does sound like a really good plan and I am currently in a situation like that. Your plan sounds a little bit better than mine. I get 10 sick days a year and when I don't use it at the end of the year, I get paid for it. That amounts to one free paycheck. Every year I've been doing it for almost 8 years that i've worked her so it's pretty nice to have. I look at it as a small % extra added to my salary every year.