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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Wait...it shouldn't be a financial burden upon who? The employees? What about the employers?
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As I see it, this is a financial burden that should be shared. Sickness, if genuine and severe enough to stop doing your work properly or risking others health at work, is something that happens. No one is at fault, everyone is at the receiving end some way or the other. No one can foresee if you're going to be sick or not. Some are more sick, other less so.
So why not settle for a solution where the individual employee get in part paid sick leave and the employers pay some of the salary for the sick days. This way it is a loss for both, but it is an arrangement that acknowledges that the relationship between an employer and employee is usually more than a day to day exchange of money and time. You can also start with an unpaid qualifying day for the employee to weed out the long weekends, as the company often do risk aspects of the whole business, rather than only lost work time from an individual.
All in all, I'm in favour of a mandatory basic solution, which of course companies and employees then can make additions to through insurance, company rules, etc.
cheers porphy