I would guess this varies a ton from place to place as you are legally not obligated to do this in many states. In my situation for example, you have to use vacation for sick days. It’s all one bucket of time. If you’re very lucky your manager may not count a sick day against your paid time off but technically it should count as the same. So if you get sick for 2 days, you usually have to use 2 days of your vacation/paid time off time for the year.
Also in my current place. Your vacation does not roll over. It gets paid out at the end of the year. So if you somehow don’t use the time you’re given they will just pay you as tho you worked all those hours. This is to discourage those from saving their time for like a month long vacation.
RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t think your experience is that common.
Companies generally charge sick days one way or another.
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
First two days of sick leave are by default unpaid, but then social systems kick in and the employer has to pay at least 70% of income (or min wage, whichever is higher).