Time Off Due to Illness Crossword

Time off due to illness crossword clue. A daily big one crossword puzzle question in Daily Telegraph newspaper on Friday, 21 July 2017. 9 letters 2 words (4,5)

The answer: 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. 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. 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, five US states (California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Oregon, Vermont); 23 US cities; and two US counties (Montgomery County, MD and San Francisco County, CA) have laws mandating paid sick leave. Currently, there are additional US city, county and state jurisdictions with proposed legislation to enact paid sick leave. Three cities, one county and one state have sick leaves that become effective July 1, 2017