How to Use sick time in a Sentence

sick time

noun

• And the amount of sick time and personal days workers used also fell by 65% in the most recent research.
  — Joni Sweet, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• But a shift manager told her the store manager said paid sick time was not yet available to Garcia.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Post-pandemic, there’s been a global shift in views on the use of sick time, according to a spokesperson for the Clark County School District.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 6 June 2024
• The FAQs state that employees would not be paid out for unused sick time but would be paid out for unused vacation time.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2024
• But so far, most of the conductors and all of the engineers who work in locomotives — representing more than half of all rail workers — still don’t have sick time.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
• Staff members didn’t get enough sick time — and part-time employees didn’t get any — despite being around young people who are regularly sick.
  — Saja Hindi, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023
• Based on the amount of hours worked, employees can be eligible for medical benefits, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, paid holidays and paid sick time.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 15 Apr. 2024
• Among the changes in the contract: Workers will receive 5% or more in pay increases, a longevity pay increase for at least five years of employment and the ability to donate sick time to other employees.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
• Payouts for unused sick time also would become more lucrative.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
• Some companies failed to comply; Postmates agreed to pay nearly $1 million after denying workers in Seattle sick time.
  — Gene Johnson, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• The agreement, which the company announced Wednesday, provides sick time to roughly 3,000 unionized track maintenance workers.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2023
• For example, some companies choose to have more lenient sick time for their employees, instead of outright calling it menstrual leave.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 7 Oct. 2024
• Employees can also use paid sick time for a mental health day, which is defined as a day during which a worker attends to their emotional and psychological well-being.
  — Gabby Debenedictis, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2024
• Bills introduced this year include a mandate for a $25 minimum wage for health workers; a proposal to more than double paid sick time; and new regulations for fast-food franchisees regarding wages and hours.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• If the Board of Regents votes to ratify the three-year contract, workers would receive merit pay increases, longevity pay increases, and the ability to donate sick time to other employees.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
• In 2018, along with the minimum wage petition initiative, another petition effort sought to expand paid sick time in Michigan.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2024
• In October 2020, nearly two dozen Shipt workers protested the company and its new pay structure at its headquarters, asking for higher wages, health insurance coverage and paid sick time.
  — Hannah Denham | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2023
• Their measure would protect drivers’ ability to choose their own hours, while requiring stipends to cover health insurance premiums, paid sick time and family and medical leave, and insurance for on-the-job injury.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• The improvements, Tajer said, include some higher pay rates, a slightly better back pay provision, annual raises in January rather than May, more sick time, and maximum daily hourly limit of 13 hours with extra compensation over ten hours.
  — Ted Reed, Forbes, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024