Definition of sick day
: a paid day of sick leave
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Amazon warehouse workers afraid to go to the bathroom or take a sick day.
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According to the contract, Sichel received 30 vacation days in the 2017-2018 school year, 12 sick days, 13 holidays and three bereavement days.
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The board would have granted concessions such as not slashing vacation and sick days or eliminating a Christmas bonus if legislators had approved the bill.
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According to the terms of the extension, Keller can accrue up to 25 vacation days a year, 12 sick days a year and up to four personal days a year.
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After that, any sick days that teachers accrue cannot be counted toward their pension.
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In all, Mapes racked up 320 unused sick days over a 40-year career.
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But the protests seen so far this year don’t legally count as strikes, since many superintendents are pre-emptively closing down schools, and other teachers are using sick days to protest.
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Out of roughly 800 teachers in Bullitt, the number of absences reached 39 on Friday morning before some began to cancel their sick days and come to work.
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First Known Use of sick day
1968
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: a paid day in which an employee does not work because he or she is sick
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