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Full-time staff where I work accumulate one paid sick day for every 30 days of work, up to a maximum of 85 days, you can carry these days over from year to year.
For vacation time, you're entitled to 3 weeks (15 days) during your first 5 years, 4 weeks (20 days) between year 5 and 10, and 5 weeks (25 days) for anything above 10 years. We can't carry vacation days over to the new year and can't choose to have them paid out, so a lot of people are using their leftover vacation time right now.
My company's reasoning is that sick time and absenteeism costs them a lot of money and other employees have to pick up the slack. I've seen more people let go for abusing sick time than I can count. And nothing pisses me off more than someone who I have to depend on at work who calls in sick just because they didn't feel like coming in.
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