so… i have my first sick day in 18 months, produce a drs cert and still lose half a days pay. i have been told this is taiwan standrad… but this sounds mad. anyone have info?
Each company does basically its own thing, but I worked for a right bunch of nasty little cheapskates and they never took a cent out for sick leave. Belive me, I screwed them hard when I realised that one. Sounds to me like you have a particularly grubby lot in HR.
I have heard different things about the law on this. One generous interpretation suggested ten lots of sickness, which meant either half a day or a week or whatever in one hit accounted for one lot, and you got nine to go.
HG
To be honest, I don’t know exactly what the norm is simply because it’s so ‘flexible’.
For example, I get 30 days sick leave at full pay. Some of my friends (at another company) get 15 days at full pay and 15 days without, i.e. 30 days at half pay. Similar to yours?
Clear as mud.
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Ha ha! They spelt “incompetent” wrong.
That doesn’t sound like too bad of a deal to me - at my school we’re hourly and paid on actual hours taught, so I will lose money for every class I miss. They don’t dock us but…they do. Thus, I am refusing to see a doctor until 5 PM today when I get off work, because if I miss two classes today I will lose that percentage of my salary. End result: sick grumpy teachers spreading their germs around.
no i lost half pay… first sick day in 18 months. we just follow standard local law. odd considering we are an american company.
Regulations say:
Article 4
When a worker must receive medical service or rest on account of ordinary injury, sickness, or physical reasons, he shall be entitled to ordinary sickness leave according to the following provisions:
- For the non-hospitalized, a total of less than thirty days in one year;
- For the hospitalized, not exceeding one year;
- The total of hospitalized and non-hospitalized sick leave shall not exceed one year;
Where accounted ordinary sick leave does not exceed thirty days in one year, fifty percent of salary shall be paid. In cases where Labor Insurance payments do not reach fifty percent of salary, the employer shall make up the difference.