sick pay

noun

: salary or wages paid to an employee while on sick leave

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Under existing law, the only compensation that can be excluded from the calculation is pay for expenses a worker pays on the employer’s behalf, discretionary bonuses, gifts on special occasions, and vacation and sick pay. —

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024 Neither of the union proposals at Oregon or Cal State went into personnel matters outside of wages, hours, holidays, sick pay and parking. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024 Driver advocates have long argued that those behind the wheel were due the same sort of benefits offered to full-time employees, including health care, sick pay, and workers’ compensation. —

Aarian Marshall Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 25 July 2024 At Cal State, sick pay is one of the demands undergraduate students are presenting to the administration as part of their upcoming negotiations. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for sick pay