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[guty]

I saw this in a TEFL job ad today

Salary $xxxx, 22 days holiday per year and 5 days sick benefit rising to 10 in second year

Does this happen in other fields? You can be sicker more if you are there longer?

[dyak]

[kev7161]

I just think it's an award for staying a second year, much like a salary increase. In the US, we may call them holiday days - - or "mental illness" days. I could use a few more of those around here!

[Twisting in the Wind]

I was once, at one ESL teaching job, offered 5 sick days/year. It didn't, however, increase the second year.

There was an article in the LA Times a few days ago how more health-conscious employers are becoming----instead of making their workers/teachers come in when they are sick as they used to, there is more realization now that sick people spread GERMS---hellooo, people!!!! and one sick person coming in, being a martyr, can lead to a whole office, or school of sick people.

I well remember catching pneumonia about 15 years ago when I was teaching at a site with a daycare. A little kid was spreading it. The Daycare teacher and I, the ESL teacher both ended up flat on our backs, with a tube going down our throats with the same pernicious strain of a weird pneumonia, because one mother couldn't keep her little precious darling home from school that day.

I used to send my ss home if they were sick and once caught flack for it from a supervisor. Now supervisors at other schools routinely carry around bottles of hand disinfectant and spray people in the break rooms!

Sounds like this may be a progressive school. I'd check into it further!