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Presently i get 3 sick days and 10 vacation days per year at my job (trade school Teacher) and that's all i'll ever get as long as i'm here
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That's bloody awful m8
The sick leave thing we have is definitely something which we can't abuse, although it's there if needed for something serious. I think last year I had 4 sick days in total and none so far this time, but I think my boss would get a bit suspicious if I took a weeks annual leave preceeded by a week on the sick! :rotfl: not that I'm not tempted
As far as I know, most fulltime positions wheather 'salaried' or 'waged' offer sick pay in one form or another. The only time when this doesn't apply is when you work for a temping agency- usually any time you take off sick (ie. when you are not earning the agency a commision for your employment) is unpaid and given that there is a large market for tempory employment positions from office work to warehousing here, a large proportion of the workforce don't really have any kind of security against a rainy day. And when most tempory work is minimum wage (about £4.20 per hour, I think) this means many will have to continue to work to break even as long as they are able, with nothing really left for any kind of retirement except for the much maligned state pension, which somehow remains the same regardless of how much the cost if utilities and local services rise- our Council Tax being such a one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4299632.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4290596.stm