This is a pretty good one. I spent 12 years in the Air force where you get 0 "sick days" you either appear on time for duty or will be punished. Of course we have sick call and in most cases I saw the person either show up or called the SNCO and requested they be allowed to report to sick call. If the doctor finds that you have an illness you are given orders from him to either not report for duty for a given time or perform light duty.And in the worst case be given a prescribed number of days of convalscent leave.(reciving full pay during this time)
I like this system as it keeps someone who is truly ill and could spread sickness or harm themselves from performing thier duty and or exposing others. I guess in the civilian world you cant really have a system like this which is why most places either give x number of sick days per year(after one has completed thier probationary peroid) or some give as per August some of both.And everyone must admit sometimes nothing is wrong at all with you but you just dont want to work once in a while for some reason nothing wrong with this its the people who feel this way all the time that f... it up.
The other side of this coin is when someone is sick but they cant get a "paid" sick day and they need the money they show up likely making other people get sick harming the effectiveness of the work force and therfore costing the employees and the employer.I guess it depends on the person in this case do they not work and lose out on the money or risk putting someone else in the same boat.I myself would stay home sans pay though i pretty much never get sick at all which means swine flu will either kill my ass or I will be immune to it as I seem to be to every other thing out there.i played in the dirt and mud alot when I was a kid I always knew it would do me some good.
I also for the record consider my self far from being either a Dem. or a Rep. I dont really like to tell anyone what to do and that is what both of these parties love to do so you can say that I am a Libertarian! Live Free Or Die!
I think the pole should be simply Yes or No as well as it is now it forces ones hand.
Though if a judge questions the legality...
