• ours@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        How inconsiderate of you, think of the billionaires who would suffer!

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      3 months ago

      I’ve been lucky enough to always have a job in the public sector and it’s very common they are completely separate. Likely less pay, but far better retirement system than most private sector jobs.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve worked at companies that do both. There are pros and cons to each. Sick days are usually not paid out if your employment ends. But if you just have PTO, that would be paid out.

      The worst of all is so called unlimited PTO.

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        3 months ago

        There are pros and cons to each. Sick days are usually not paid out if your employment ends. But if you just have PTO, that would be paid out.

        I get why you consider “getting more money” a pro, but in my book any financial incentive to avoid taking a sick day when you are actually sick and instead try to power through and infect everyone in the office should be considered as con.

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          3 months ago

          Well I’ve worked at a few places where they’ve transitioned between the two methods. They just end up taking your vacation days + sick days and calling it PTO. So you end up with the same number of days off but a bit of flexibility on how to use them. If you have a great year and don’t get sick, that’s 5 to 10 more days you can take off without pretending you are sick. I don’t see a big difference if my 36 days comes out of 1 bucket or two.

          Also, a lot of places don’t have caps on sick days so if you don’t use them in a year, you can carry forward into the next year.

          Very few places will give unlimited sick days.

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            3 months ago

            So you end up with the same number of days off but a bit of flexibility on how to use them.

            That’s the problem - sick days should not have a “flexibility” aspect to them. You take them when you are sick, so that you can heal and so that you can avoid infecting other people.

            Since you don’t have a choice about being sick, ideally there shouldn’t be a choice about whether or not you take a sick day - but realistically this can’t be tightly enforced (at least not with reasonable measures), that it ends up relying on good will, and that there will always be incentives to fake sickness in order to take sick days and incentives to ignore sickness and still go to work (and these incentives don’t balance each other out - they incentivize different people differently, widening the gap of unfairness)

            But still - even if you accept that real life have such deficiencies - this does not mean one should create policies that make them even more deficient!

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              Look, I’ve never been sick and not been paid for it. And I’ve never had to get a doctor’s note or anything like that. That would be the inevitable result of unlimited sick days unfortunately.