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Download Now Employers that offer paid sick leave usually require as a prerequisite that employees be employed for a certain minimum period, typically 3 to 6 months, before becoming eligible to take sick leave. Most employers use the “accrual” method of calculating sick time, in which employees earn a certain number of hours or days for each month worked, up to a fixed number of days annually.
Disability policies. After the sick leave period, an employee might need to go on short-term disability, an insured (or self-insured) program that pays a partial salary for a longer period than company-funded sick leave. If the illness or injury is further extended, some employers provide an insured long-term disability program, which also pays partial salary, and may be integrated with other benefits such as Social Security. Most experts agree that long-term disability is an ...