51.   So many companies have been cutting back by combining sick days, vacation days, personal days and floating holidays into one category called paid days off.

52.   Still others simply concede that some employees will use a sick day on the holiday.

53.   Technicians also are upset that America West has installed time clocks and is clamping down on the number of sick days workers can take.

54.   Studies also show that telecommuters take fewer sick days, report greater job satisfaction and improved creativity.

55.   The haves were beating the have-nots when Marvin Miller was still negotiating sick days for coal miners.

56.   There is broad agreement, however, that the prospects for extending this idea to another area, unused sick days, are dim.

57.   They know very well which parent is more likely to call for a sick day.

58.   They take their days off, their sick days to shop for cars.

59.   They will probably use fewer sick days to do things such as getting the refrigerator delivered.

60.   This is not a job with sick days and substitutes who can be called in.