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1 in 5 American adults has called in sick on at least one occasion when they weren’t ill, according to a Harris Interactive survey …
The Christian Science Monitor – Bonnie Russell considers herself a workaholic, logging long hours as a legal publicist. But that doesn’t mean she never takes time off.
Every three or four months, when she was employed in law firms, she would call in sick, although she felt fine. Even now, as her own boss, she still takes the equivalent of sick time.
“It’s not a sick day, it’s a well day,” says Ms. Russell, who runs 1st-Pick.com in Del Mar, Calif. “It blows out the cobwebs and puts things in perspective.”
Employees use “sick days” for many purposes. That raises a question: When is it ethical to use sick days?
That kind of artful redefinition is common this time of year, when many companies enforce use-it-or-lose-it policies.
Determined not to waste sick leave that expires Dec. 31, an estimated 30 percent of those with unused days are taking them under some pretense, says John Dantico, a compensation consultant in Northbrook, Ill.
The issue is “always problematic,” says Stephen Fox, a labor and employment attorney in Dallas. “You have those employees who take sick time as it’s supposed to be taken, when you’re truly sick or have someone under your care who is sick. Then there are those employees who say, ‘Hey, it’s a free day off.’ ”
Such attitudes can create tension between those who follow the rules and those who skirt them. But some break the rules because their employers’ sick-day policies give them few options.
“Companies create problems for themselves when they have a policy saying that sick leave is only for the employee,” says Keith Greene, a director at the Society for Human Resource Management in Alexandria, Va. …
