Jan 31, 2022, 7:41 PM

@ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@sunny said in The Work Thread:

Rewarding people with financial value if they don't use days is straight up encouraging people to work sick.

My reading of the original post is that this is a discussion on PTO, rather than sick leave. In Ohio, these are separate kinds of leave, but both are compensable in the public sector.

I apologize, but I don't understand how that makes a difference. If It's PTO that's used for being sick, and you're rewarding people for not using PTO at all, then...it's rewarding people for coming to work sick, whether you call it Sick Leave, PTO, or lollipop time.

If they are separate pools, and the benefit is NOT applied to "sick leave" as a separate pool, certainly that changes the situation, but the situation actively being discussed does not sound like there are separate Annual Leave and Sick Leave pools, but instead a singular "paid time off" pool.