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- Morph of a Nerd CEO â€" Sick Days are Sick
- Here you are with your own company. You don’t get to write code any more (or you shouldn’t be writing code, anyway). There’s a lot of petty stuff you have to deal with. One of the worst is adjudicating sick days, personal days,...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Chronic sick-day lies rise as stigma falls by wayside; Corporations eye paid-leave revamps to meet changing needs of workforce.(Brief Article)(Column)
- Joan sanders stared at her phone, feeling bad about the lie she was preparing to tell. But after toiling past 9 four nights in a row to please a precious client, she couldn't face going to work. All morning, she had tried to avoid...
- Research articles 2001-09-10
- Sick-day abuse may spur more flexible programs.(flex time)
- Are sick days a thing of the past? More employees are taking unscheduled absences to deal with family issues, stress and personal needs, rather than their own illnesses, according to a survey by CCH Inc., a Riverwoods, Ill.-based human resources firm.Are sick days a thing of...
- Research articles 1996-08-26
- Employers move away from strict sick days.(CCH Inc., a Riverwoods, Ill.-based tax and business law information provider, conducts survey on employee work habits)
- AMANDA MILLIGAN Honesty is the best policy when a family issue requires an employee to take time off, employers say. When an employer fails to address family needs, however, employees may feel they have to hide the real situation, often masking ...
- Research articles 1998-11-02
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- Getting Caught Healthy on a "Sick Day"
- I was recently promoted to senior manager at a small marketing company, and on my first week in the position I caught one of my employees faking an illness. He had called in that morning to say he had the flu, but I had to run an errand at the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Sick Day Abuse
- It is reasonable to expect employees to fall ill occasionally and be unable to arrive at work. It is for this reason organizations extend a particular number of sick day leaves per year to each of their employees. But in case, if any of the employee is taking more number...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Feeling Sick? Stay Home. Please!
- Try and count how many times you've gone into the office sick when you should have stayed home. Now imagine how many of your colleagues got sick because you didn't want to fall behind in work. Cali's Work+Life "Fit" Blog has some novel advice for contagious workaholics. How about working...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Merrill Lynch Doesn't Like Sick Employees
- Apparently Merrill Lynch has announced a new sick day policy. After missing four days of work, the company can start deducting an employee's pay. And if an employee misses nine days of work, he or she will be fired. And by the way, this policy applies to Merrill Lynch's admin...
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Sick Days Policy
- Use this template to inform the employee about the sick day's policy of the organization.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Pope sends message to sick on world TB day
- CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy AFP — Pope Benedict XVI said he was "particularly close" to those sick with tuberculosis following Easter prayers which coincide with the World Tuberculosis Day. "During this world day to fight tuberculosis, I am particularly close to those who are sick and their families and hope...
- Research articles 2008-03-24
- How to Reduce Absenteeism
- If you've been managing a team for a while you may start to be able to predict when you're employees will call in sick. So and so always gets the flu on Mondays, a number of folks always come down with something around the holidays, and that one guy down...
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Super Bowl Championship Game May Have Many Monday Morning Quarterbacks Using Sick Time
- CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- New survey findings indicate that 1.4 million employed U.S. adults may call in sick to work the day after the big game New survey findings suggest that an estimated 1.4 million(1) employed(2) U.S. adults may call in sick to work the day after the Super Bowl....
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- McNeil Benylin Ad Encourages Workers to Call in Sick; Employers Hate It
- McNeil Healthcare has posted a series of scripts on a web site for cold medicine Benylin that workers can use to call in sick. A British employers' organization is furious that the drug company, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, is encouraging staff to stay home during the recession. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- How to Play Hooky More Effectively
- Today I'm in full-on procrastination mode, doing everything possible to avoid tackling some pressing but distasteful work that's sitting on my desk. This fact got me thinking about how people weasel out of going work, and in a happy coincidence, I found some advice from Lifehacker on...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Pope John Paul II "sick, very sick," battles high fever: Vatican, reports
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope John Paul II is "sick, very sick," too ill even to be rushed to hospital as battles a high fever caused by a urinary infection, according to the Vatican and local news reports. Italian television news said he had been given the last rites....
- Research articles 2005-03-31
- Sick of work
- Worker truancy is bleeding millions of dollars from business each year. SUSAN MULDOWNEY investigates the cost of sickies CAN'T FACE WORK? WHY NOT CALL IN sick? You wouldn't be alone - around three per cent of the Australian workforce would happily join you on an average day. And after all,...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- Sick of the lies
- ENOUGH ALREADY. I am sick of the lies told by John Kerry, the Democratic Party and the liberal media day after day. I am a 48-year-old married black father of five young children. My children have never been on welfare or needed medical care from the government....
- Research articles 2004-10-04
- Should We Embrace a Four-Day Workweek?
- As the price of fuel continues to skyrocket, there's a workplace trend afoot to shortening workweeks to save energy. In Utah, administrative offices will be closed on Fridays while hours will be extended Monday through Thursday. Birmingham, Ala. implemented a truncated schedule for city employees on July 1, and officials...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Absence-Minded: The High Cost of Sick Days
- It's no secret that employees call in sick when they feel fine, but just how often they fib might surprise you. A 2005 survey by CCH Inc., a Riverwoods, Ill.-based provider of information services, found that personal illness accounts for just 35 percent of unscheduled absences. That doesn't mean workers...
- White papers 2006-02-15
- Is your school sick? Five threats to healthy schools.
- Five risk factors must be identified to avoid sick building syndrome in school buildings. After diagnosing the condition, school administrators must be aware of which building materials and chemicals are considered as environmental hazards. Attention should also be given to indoor air quality.Every day, students and teachers are exposed to...
- Research articles 1998-03-01
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