Sentences with phrase «sick days a year»

Dee says he used to offer staff six sick days a year, but that certain employees would always max them out, while others wouldn't take any.

By offering a number of paid sick days each year, you give good employees breathing space for those rare occasions when they are too ill to come in.

If approved, it would have required businesses with 20 or more employees to provide workers with nine paid sick days a year.

That amounts to 9,000 fewer sick days a year.

The new legislation, being introduced to the Council by the mayor himself, will force businesses with five or more employees to provide workers, both full and part - time, with up to five paid sick days a year.

In recent years, dozens of states, cities and counties have passed their own ordinances, which typically require employers to provide between three and seven paid sick days a year.

The latest version of the bill would require businesses with fewer than 20 employees to provide five paid sick days a year, said supporters.

He also received eight weeks» paid vacation and 30 sick days a year.

A study in the Netherlands showed that smokers took an average of 11 more sick days a year than nonsmokers.

Treasury Board President Tony Clement, who has sparked a war with public sector unions in his quest to cut costs, has outlined proposed changes to sick leave policy, which would include five to seven sick days a year, a short - term disability leave of a week to six months and long - term leave for more than six months.

For instance, providing for three paid sick days a year would not qualify as a greater benefit to PEL, as PEL provides 10 days of job - protected leave for a wider array of reasons.

sick days a year, which is quite low.

Nausea and other symptoms force Americans to take nearly 111 million sick days a year, contributing to about $ 7 billion in productivity lost to the annual flu season, federal data show.

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For the whole staff, it could mean a bot that knows everything from the guest Wi - Fi password to how to input travel expenses to the company policy on rolling over sick days from year to year.

Kevin Dee can count on one hand the number of sick days he's taken in the past 15 years.

She says this policy has played a role in the company's 60 percent reduction in sick days over the past two years.

My company had a generous sick leave policy of up to three days in a row without a doctor's note, as often as needed throughout the year, fully paid, for all exempt employees.

In February of this year, Facebook (fb) expanded its employee benefits to include 20 days of paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and up to six weeks of paid time to take care of sick relatives.

Engaged employees take an average of nearly 60 percent fewer sick days per year than disengaged employees.

Many businesses initially opposed the first state paid sick days law in Connecticut, yet within a few years a survey showed... that an overwhelming majority of businesses reported only small or no effects on their bottom line, and three - quarters now report being supportive of the new policy.

But the C. D. Howe report speculates that the rising number of sick days women are taking off — an average 2.9 more days a year than men — has less to do with illness than the fact that women are often saddled with taking care of both children and elderly parents.

Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on public - school teachers that eliminated bankable sick days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.

BOSTON — President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican congressional leaders of endangering the economy and Republican presidential candidates of undercutting American workers.

Benefits include a generous company contribution to health and dental insurance, retirement contribution after 1 year, 8 paid holidays, vacation, 5 sick days.

The study also accounted for the number of employee short - term and long - term illnesses, and employee total sick day counts per year.

The rule, which was issued on Thursday and which the Labor Department estimates will directly affect more than 1.1 million people once fully in effect, enables workers to accrue up to seven days of paid sick leave a year.

Actually, God has answered many of my prayers, my wife was very sick, she is now better, I was my self not doing well and now doing better, things do nt happen over night when we pray it might take a day, months or years.

Months before, in an empty hospital hallway, I learned that my young, 35 - year - old, vegetarian, ran - five - miles - a-day, never - sick - a day - in - his - life husband had Stage IV colon cancer.

Ask another what a home is, and a very different answer would be given: A home is a place where we have to consider the wishes of others, where we can not always have our own way, where children fall sick and require sacrificial care, where puzzling problems rise which it is hard to settle, where we must be true to love to keep it, where every day brings some small self - denial and every year some great one.

Rick i struggled for over 20 years as a christian in the end i said whats the point of struggling i feel powerless and useless so i gave in to sin that did nt work either but i was so sick of struggling and seeing the same results i became more miserable and even more powerless in my struggle with sin.I decided one day no more enough was enough i needed to get my life back in order.That was years ago and it was a process over 5 years that God dealt with all those things in my life that needed fixing most days i just said to him Lord i cant do this i just do nt have the strength and he said thats okay you cant do it anyway just trust me.So now now i l know what it means to be an overcomer in Christ sin does not have the victory over me anymore because Jesus is my strength in my weakness.I know i cant live a christian life in my strength but i certainly can with Christ in me he is my strength and in him i am an overcomer.If this is speaking to others just want to let you know that you to can be an overcomer you do nt have to struggle or battle with your walk or feel miserable because you give in to sin there is a better way.Just admit that you cant do it and ask for his help for the holy spirit is in you and he is the one who helps us in our weakness.regards brentnz

Little One caught a bug after New Year and was sick for 3 days.

If you posted a different variation of these every day for the next year, I still wouldn't get sick of them.

I think it was for a couple of reasons — partly when my dad was super sick and in the hospital for months, and at the same time we were having this years - long drought... and I just kept thinking «I just want a rainy day to sit inside and rest and recharge.»

It's the time of the year again, when I always get sick for a few days and feel massively down.

Another moral of the story — a couple sick days [or years] won't hurt b / c when they get older you'll never earn that time back.

This year, I made this roasted beet salad — a dish that goes out to all my homies out there who are sick of soup for lunch and, now that St. Patty's day is over, can't stand to stare down another potato.

I haven't been that sick in a long time and I have to admit having a 1 year old at home all day with me was really hard.

Since I started taking this once a day or every other day, I haven't been sick in over a year!

Why not take my money and my four precious days — one «personal» and one «sick» from the fiscal year's allowance — put them on either side of a weekend, and create my own damn health retreat?

I was diagnosed 40 years ago at the age of 8 months, thanks to a fantastic gastro specialist at Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto, and I have navigated the early days of rice flour everything, which tends to turn best laid plans into pans of tasty crumbs — but crumbs nonetheless.

Kos achilles ramsey hamstring Sanchez is gone and people do get sick and ozil probably needed a day off and why when your the top player maybe you get a little more lee way than the 20 year old tryi ng to make the team ozils mistake was his post arsene is smart and you would rid us of our legend manager and our top international world class players keep wenger in his time will come im sure if you were a player you would love playing for him but we all have our opinions and mine is no more right than anyone else ’s

Exactly, so sick of the stadium debt being used as an excuse, nonsense, around 34 million from day one and still at that rate for some years to come, no debt is cleared, payments are the same!

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

I read somewhere that some said we're not clinical enough that is a culture at wenger has become too friendly with the players at Arsenal the players position are seldom under treat you play poorly for two weeks and you still make the team you missed a look at almunia retrospectively don't understand that hey if i get a chance to score i must take it the first time cause i may not get a next one and you want the players to be clinical it must start from the top good work or none As was said on a website to day Arsenal should parade through the streets of london in an open top Bus at the end of the season the accountants of the club and i will through wenger in there too cause to most of you he can do no wrong I love this club with all my heart and i can support no other club in football but to see for 5 seasons we can't show any vast improvement and keep making the same mistakes every year is hard to swallow it makes me sick but as wenger says judge me at the end i wonder what end he meant the end of the season or the end of his contract GO ARSENAL......................

Finally, there's the acknowledgement that if / when we do take time off to have children, then there will be a crop of twenty - somethings (who don't need days off to look after sick children or take their seventy year old mothers to doctor appointments) that we have to compete with when we go back into the workforce.

This was my literal truth one year ago and NOW that she can speak — she came to me other day when I was sick as a dog (and more than a little surprised that she let my mom look after her) and says — you got 37?!?! (her codeword for fever as in 37 degrees Celsius).

Similarly, sick days, 80 percent of low - wage workers can't earn a single paid sick day, but we know that the cost of «presentism» is greater to businesses than of having sick days, so I expect that to pass in the next 10 years.

And if it makes you feel any better, my 14 year old's first sign that he's getting sick has always been that he gets incredibly mean the day before, my 9 year old's first sign of illness is that he is spastic and gets in trouble for doing impulsive things all.day.long.

Now she's 4 years old and one day she felt sick.

James O'Brien, president of the Boston Carmen's Union, which represents T transit workers, blamed the agency, saying that for years managers encouraged drivers to take unpaid medical leave rather than paid sick days.