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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In all my private sector jobs, sick days were never accumulated nor rolled over.  Sick days are there for when you get sick, not to use as a planned vacation allowance.  For those who say let's just make it all PTO and no sick days, the problem with this is when your nanny uses all her PTO and THEN gets sick.  What is she going to do? Ask for more paid time off? Expect sick time coverage? Sickness doesn't occur with advance notice, that's why employers provide sick time allowance for the times when you are  - actually - sick. [/quote]
So is it a "perk", or not??[/quote]

Yeah I don't get it. "We offer you this compensation, but don't you dare use it! And at the end of the year I won't compensate you for it."[/quote]
Yeah, clearly you don't get it.  A perk isn't necessarily comparable to cash value.  Perks commonly require you to meet some conditions. My employer covers gym memberships, but to do that, I actually need to join the gym.  I can't get that cash in hand. The same with parking and metro. They will pay for parking and Metrochek, but I actually need to be enrolled with a parking garage or buy a Smartrip card. It's not cash value. I'd get laughed out of HR if I told them, you offer me this perk, why should I forgo it just because I don't use metro or need parking?

Sick days are for covering sickness.  You need to get sick to use them. If you intend to use them interchangeably with PTO, ask for more PTO with the knowledge that you have no coverage if you get sick and have used up all your PTO.[/quote]

Sounds like what you want is a nanny who calls out for every sniffle. If that's what's required to get said compensation, so be it. [/quote]

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