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In response to "So if you get 10 sick days a year and a parent gets 10 sick days a year" by amoxy

The point as I understand it being: there are more acceptable uses of that time for a married person with kids than a single person.

Posted by TFox Mar 27 '09, 08:32

And in many workplaces, it is somewhat (or more than somewhat) frowned upon when you use all your sick days every single year. So if one person can only take them when they themselves are sick, and another can take them if any one of five different people are sick, then there is an imbalance there.

I'm not going to speak to whether that imbalance is worth getting upset over or not, but I think that is the point.

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This is sorta where I fall. I really believe that society here needs to promote family growth, so I can accept this usage to a point. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Mar 27, 08:36
say a single person actually gets sick and uses them all. is that unfair to healthy people? -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 08:34 1
- technically? yeah. but that speaks more to why having a "sick days" benefit is inherently dicier than a PTO system. - TFox Mar 27, 08:38

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The point as I understand it being: there are more acceptable uses of that time for a married person with kids than a single person.

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