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sick leave
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sick leave
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accumulating days for sick leave proved to be a trap.
▪ I could take the afternoon off from work as sick leave.
▪ It also accounted for 11.6% of sick leave.
▪ J Nyberg had now returned from sick leave.
▪ She took every bit of sick leave she could.
▪ The woman suffered bruising to the head and body in the impact and went on sick leave from work.
▪ Then they learn that Lincoln employees receive no company-paid dental insurance benefits, no paid holidays, and have no sick leave.
▪ When they go on sick leave, their aggregate take-home pay is actually higher than when they are on the job.
Wiktionary
sick leave

n. Paid absence from work specifically to recover from illness.

WordNet
sick leave

n. a leave of absence from work because of illness

Wikipedia
Sick leave

Sick leave (or paid sick days or sick pay) is time off from work that workers can use to stay home to address their health and safety needs without losing pay. Paid sick leave is a statutory requirement in many nations around the world. Most European, many Latin American, a few African and a few Asian countries have legal requirements for paid sick leave. Already in 1500 BCE, at least some of the workers who built the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs received paid sick leave as well as state-supported health care.

In nations without laws mandating paid sick leave, some employers choose to offer it and others do not. Those that do offer sick leave, do so as a matter of workplace policy or because it is in some or all of the employees' employment contracts or required by a collective bargaining agreement. Currently, only three US states and four US cities have laws mandating paid sick leave. In most US state legislatures there are laws pending that would guarantee paid sick leave.