Lord Nobby wrote:
We have statutory sick pay (SSP) here, along with individual employers' enhancements.
Now this I find hard to defend. I can take sick days on full pay without a doctor's note for up to 5 days. With a doctor's note, I'm entitled to full sick pay for up to 6 months, and half pay for a further 3 months.
I've rarely used it but was grateful when I broke my hand and was signed off by the medic for 10 weeks.
We can be dismissed for taking excessive sick leave (E.g. regularly calling in sick on Mondays etc.)
Pretty much this.
We accrue leave as we go, so it applies to part time workers too. Mine works out to about 28 days a year, but because I am only working about 16 hours a week atm, it builds up prety slowly. (Tho my weekends are already 5 days long so I dont need too many extra hours for a week off).
Also we get paid maternity/paternity leave. I had 8 weeks full pay and 6 weeks unpaid when our boy was born.
Also I 'work' for the health service, so its a bit like being paid to sit around at home reading the interwebz for much of the time anyway.
And I go home when my list is done. So sometimes I,m off by lunchtime, and other times I'm off at 5 or 6 depending on how useless the nursing staff are being that day.
Also, 'The mental health day' is catered to quite well in NZ.
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