The phrase "sick out" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to mean a strike or protest by employees who call in sick in order to express their disapproval of certain decisions or policies. For example, you could say, "The employees at the factory are so unhappy with the new overtime policies that they are threatening to organize a sick out."
"Security operations at airports have not been impacted by a non-existent sick out," department spokesperson Tyler Houlton tweeted regarding the story.
Warren school board member Ben Lazarus told CapCon that he believes the district made the right call to close schools, but teachers acted poorly in choosing a "sick out" as a way of addressing the right-to-work legislation.
What, you were sick out the window?
"Not on top of Malibu" she exclaims when offered whisky by Meena's father, saying that she'll be fishing bits of sick out of the birdbath for ever after.
It might sound uncomfortably Big Brotherish, but it could save billions by keeping the chronically sick out of doctors' surgeries and – if all this data allowed GPs to anticipate and avoid medical emergencies such as heart attacks and strokes – out of hospital beds.
The Whittemores are trying to raise more money, and have received donations as large as $50,000 from friend down to a few dollars from patients who are sick, out of work and broke, but eager to support any research that may one day help them.
A teachers' protest was planned to coincide with the sick outs, at noon on Monday outside the Fisher building in downtown Detroit.
But an obvious interstate problem arises when sick out-of-state patients lack insurance, and their emergency-room visits end up being paid for by host-state taxpayers.
The "sick outs" have caused district-wide closures across Warren Consolidated Schools, Taylor School District and Fitzgerald Public Schools.
"It's almost the equivalent of a corporate sick-out".
