11.   Northeast Career also lets employees donate their unused sick time to co-workers in case of certain dire illnesses such as cancer.

12.   Now, some employers are providing benefits that go beyond the act, such as extended paid sick time to care for family members.

13.   Paid holidays and sick time have been cut back, too.

14.   She knows some employers worry that obese people will take more sick time than others because of obesity-related health problems.

15.   She did use accumulated sick time to take a four-week paid leave and spend it with her new son.

16.   That factors in sick time, holidays and vacation to calculate how much time officers put in for their salaries.

17.   They are allowed to cash out unused vacation time and, in the case of employees with more than five years on the job, unused sick time.

18.   To justify his sick time, he told his supervisors he had a chronic illness.

19.   Come Monday, she will run out of sick time and will be removed from the payroll.

20.   Firefighters reached agreement with the city Thursday on a two-year contract that would allow them to be treated for hepatitis C without depleting their sick time.