How to Use sick pay in a Sentence

sick pay

noun

• One of the biggest points of contention now is sick pay.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• As of May 20, just one worker is known to have been approved for sick pay.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2020
• The city reimbursed the restaurant $5,000 for sick pay.
  — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• When she was injured on the job and had to stay home for eight days with stitches in both legs, there was no sick pay.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Workers offered the most generous sick pay take the most absences, and those offered the least, take the least.
  — Megan Carnegie, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
• Drivers will earn one hour of sick pay for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum of 56 hours per year.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• In Canada, provinces are in charge of sick pay itself, and 58% of workers have no access.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2021
• That means employees who stayed home but did not get sick pay will not be counted as employed in the jobs report.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
• Those unable to work from home will be eligible for sick pay.
  — Ted Mann and Adam Martin, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
• Some congressional Democrats want all wage earners to have 14 days of sick pay to meet the quarantine time frame.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Millions earned rock-bottom wages, and didn’t get sick pay or health benefits.
  — Emily Peck, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
• The House made slight changes to the measure on Monday, limiting sick pay to fewer employees.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 17 Mar. 2020
• Workers who are not entitled to sick pay face hardship.
  — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2020
• But there is no steady paycheck, no health insurance, no sick pay, and no vacation pay.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• Enhanced sick pay to support those suffering from the coronavirus will end in late March.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• The Fed’s move comes on the heels of a House bill, passed early Saturday morning, that aims to provide free testing for the coronavirus and sick pay for some workers.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2020
• The rank and file members of both unions have rejected the tentative agreements reached with the railroads in September, mostly over the lack of sick pay in the contracts.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 9 Nov. 2022
• As Covid-19 spread in meat plants, Prestage spent heavily on safety gear, sick pay and testing employees.
  — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
• However, in a country where statutory sick pay is getting worse, this is nothing but a pipe dream.
  — Megan Carnegie, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
• San Francisco has had a law on its books mandating sick pay for employees since 2006.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• Delta cut its covid sick pay and isolation policy in accordance with the new guidance the last week of December.
  — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2022
• For two years, the state of California has dissuaded sick people from showing by guaranteeing sick pay to those who caught the virus while on the job.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor dec. 20, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• For driver advocates, sick pay has been the hot button labor issue of the pandemic.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 7 June 2020
• News that the White House and Congress were close to announcing an agreement on a package to provide sick pay, free testing and other resources helped boost the market.
  — Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2020
• No steady paycheck, no health insurance, no sick pay, no vacation pay.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 31 Aug. 2017
• Gig workers miss out on rights that employees have, such as sick pay and protection against unfair dismissal.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2018
• And this is especially true among lower-wage workers, some of whom may not have been eligible for sick pay.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
• Business groups pushed to require a positive coronavirus test to qualify for Hours 41 through 80 of sick pay.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• That can be solved through social interventions: things like universal healthcare, things like sick pay for all.
  — The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2020
• With a depressed father whose sick pay is barely covering the rent, money runs out and Joanna sets off to hunt for money to pay for her medication.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 Oct. 2022

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