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What is "sick pay"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sick pay
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A key element of the package was a reduction in guaranteed sick pay.
▪ I remember when sick pay and conditions were added and when, under the wages councils, wage rates were raised.
▪ Kohl wanted to reduce sick pay to 80 percent of wages.
▪ Of course, employers' sick pay does not go on indefinitely.
▪ One feature of the absence screens is that sick pay and absence entitlements are displayed.
▪ The terms of any company sick pay scheme also need to be considered.
▪ Thus, one could consider such factors as hours, sick pay, pension schemes and holiday entitlements.
Wiktionary
sick pay

n. money paid to an employee during his or her sick leave.

WordNet
sick pay

n. wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave

Usage examples of "sick pay".

The board, without any prodding from anybody, had already declared that there would no longer be any seasonal layoffs, even in such a seasonal industry, and that there would be vacations with pay, and that medical care for workers and their dependents would be free, and that there would be sick pay and a retirement plan, and that the ultimate goal of the company was that, through a stock-bonus plan, it become the property of the workers.

Tyson continued, 'Plus all my vacation pay, sick pay, and some year-end bonus money.

His hefty cash severance includes unused sick pay, vacation and holidays accrued over Lunetta's 38 years with the county.

As the Publicity Department's fax machines were launching Chelsea's counterattack against the hepatitis scare, Moe Strickland arrived to bitch about sick pay and what the almighty Screen Actors Guild would say.