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POLICY - Sick Days
POLICY NUMBER- [Insert Number]
EFFECTIVE DATE - [Insert Date]
PERTAINS TO - All Full Time Employees
Upon completion of [insert length of time] service all regular full time employees will be eligible to a maximum of [insert number of days] sick days. Sick day pay will be based on the average [enter hours] workday. Any sick time taken over and above the [enter number of days] will be unpaid. At the end of the calendar year any unused sick time will be paid out to employees at [enter percentage]. Sick time cannot be carried over into the following year.
Management reserves the right to request a doctor´s note from an employee verifying that the absence was due to illness. Any employee found to be abusing the sick time policy will be disciplined up to and including dismissal.
