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Chronic Illness 2w
Is it typical for companies to give only 1 week of paid sick time for the whole year? Im now coming up on my second year at this job having to take a week off work with no pay because of my weakened immune system
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Anonymous 2w

I’ve found that a lot of companies will give the lowest amount of sick time they are legally required to. I got 15 days of paid leave at my job. But they combined sick leave and vacation time. So technically it’s a week of paid sick time.

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Anonymous 2w

Depends…is sick time separate from vacation? Mine is combined, so I have more (3 weeks for being sick, appointments, time off, vacation, etc.). You cab look at accommodations, or even intermittent FMLA. They can help sith that

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

But if you apply for intermittent leave through FMLA, you can get more paid time off.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

For my company yes, i also just learned they arent giving us the state mandated amount, we have 40 hours when we should have 56 because of the amount of employees we have

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