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"Then talk about sick time".
Nobody pays freelancers for sick time.
But I refuse to call that sick time.
That's because I take my sick time as vacation time.
(Paid sick time increasingly looks the same way).
Your Aug. 27 editorial "Cap Sick Time" implies that Parsippany Police Chief Michael Filippello's $469,000 retirement package for unused vacation and sick time was "abuse".
Many public and private employers have a use-it-or-lose-it policy toward sick time.
Hours of service include paid vacation and sick time, as well as things like jury duty.
There used to be a two-week vacation starting out, one week sick time.
The infrequent cases of mandatory overtime resulted from the misuse of sick time, he said.
His payment for unused vacation time and sick time hardly made up for that.
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