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[TiGrBaLm]

I have been feeling under the weather since Tuesday and I am sure that it is due to exhaustion. My questions is, how do I go about taking sick leave? Do I just call up the school/coteacher in the morning and tell them I feel like crap and voila?

This is what my contract says:

Article 15 (Sick Leave) ① Employee shall be entitled to a paid sick leave if an illness or injury prevents him/her from performing the duties under this Contract, provided, however, that he/she obtains Employer's prior consent.
② When Employee takes a sick leave for more than seven (7) days (inclusive of a national holiday, Saturday, and Sunday), Employee shall submit a practicing doctor's medical report to Employer.
③ Employee's paid sick leave during the Term of Employment shall not exceed fifteen (15) calendar days(inclusive of a national holiday, Saturday, and Sunday). If Employee requires a sick leave for more than fifteen (15) calendar days, Employee may take a further sick leave without pay.

TiA

[Ced]

15 days, awesome! I get 4

[Pak Yu Man]

14 sick days...holy crap. I'd start cashing in right now.

That's like 14 extra holidays. Even if I wasn't sick I'd use up at least 10 of those daysw.

[thebomb]

Lucky you lot, I get jack! When I took the day off because I was vomitting blood, they classed that as a days holiday leave. I have only just found this little gem out. There reasoning being that because I wasn't admitted to hospital it cannot count as sick leave. w*a*n*kers. And this is a company not a school!

[JJJ]

Use them or loss them is my new motto.

I tried to be nice and asked to use one of my vacation days and they said no, so that one is unpaid. However, I now will be taking a day off every chance I can get. I have Wed. with no classes, so I will use most of them for that day. I was also told by my co-teacher that I can use them for taking an afternoon off after my classes. So, I can use them on a Friday when I am finished at lunch, leave at 1 ('till 5) and that is a half day of sick time. Cool.

[ilovebdt]

[kat2]

I took one yesterday. I was midly sick and my dog was really sick, so I felt it was justified. I have this WASPy work ethic where I never take sick days, so tey know its serious if I call in. This was my first one in 9 months.
FYI, cultural thing: You MUST call your supervisor (for me its the VP) and tell them, even if they can't understand. Then you can call a teacher who can speak English. That way the VP doesn't look out of the loop when teh lowly KTeacher comes in to tell them the waygook is sick.

[willneverteachagain]

i got 5 but was told if i took them that i would be fired, then i had to take 2 days off because i had surgery and was also told that i would be fired if i went to labor board because they took these days off my pay but the drunk guy who called in sick 2 times a month got paid for his missed days

[ttompatz]