Do you take medical leave when you are sick?

Hi Kaka,

Most of the times the doctor would advise the patients
to take the medical fitness or medial leave in order to have the
full bed rest and which would helps them to have the fast cured
from the diseases, but many of the peoples would never mind and still
need to work in the office when they are effected by the diseases, this
is not a good practice because they may spread the infection to others too.
So when the person would have the infections means he should take the proper
treatment and would stay in the home till he is fully recovered from the
diseases.

Have a nice day.

My husband won't take a day off if he's sick because sick pay doesn't pay as much as his overtime does, and they'll replace his overtime with the sick time if he takes a day off, so we'll lose like $30 a week if he takes 1 day off. Plus he doesn't get a lot of sick time, and he doesn't want to waste it unless he desperately needs it. If he's really really sick he'll take a day off, but if he can make it through the day, he goes to work.

definitely. if i am sick i will not go to work, even though i work in a small company and am missed if i am sick, its not worth it for your co-workers (they dont want to get sick) or for your health.

It depends on. If I don't feel so sick, then I have to work. Sometimes it is not easy to take a day off. I may get a call even if I am out of the office. So I don't want to be waken up when I am sleeping even if I have the medical leave. If I really feel bad, then I will take a day off and go to see a doctor or go home to have a rest.

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if i am sick, i definitely wont go to work, coz it's not only you spread the virus to the whole office but also working while your still sick is not advisable, and it's really not good for your health also.

but i also understand some people who would still go to work while they are sick, maybe because of some financial problem but there are also people whose need to be at work coz they take a major rule in the daily operation of the company...

Hi Kaka,

It depends on how serious of the illness. If it is a cold and my job allows it, I will continue to work as it will not affect too much. But if I have a headache, I surely will take medical leave as the brain did not work under such circumstance.

Now the swine-flu is overwhelming that we need to take care of it. It is lucky that people around me have the high sense on that. If they caught a cold, they will wear the mask to avoid the virus to spead via the air.

I know that some people did not take day off because they would not like their wages to be deducted and some of them will not like to take day off due to the job prohibition.

For me, I will take medical leave if I am sick as I can not put much concentration on, which will affect the working efficiency there. And my company has a good back up system that I don't need to worry about my job on that.

Have a nice day.

Oh yes if am employed I would definitely go on medical leave whenever am sick anyway, as long as we're regular employees, we will be paid. Though others don;t want to consume their sick leave and vacation leave as at the end of the year their employers refunded their unused medical and vacation leave.

If your work has sick leave privileges, then it is your right to take a day off work and file for leave if you are really sick. This way your body can recuperate faster. I find it sad for minimum wage workers here in my country who do not have such privileges. If they don't come to work, they don't get paid. So even if they are sick, they cannot afford to not to come to work.

I took medical leave once after experiencing a multiple fracture in a road accident. I feel, if the doctor says to avail a medical leave, he means that and that is obviously for a medical reason. So, it is better to avail the leave.
Specially the sickness caused by virus, if medical leave is prescribed by doctor must be followed.

Hello kaka135 this is checkmail and most of the time i don't fall sick but if got sick, naturally gets an sick leave or break to rest.I am concerned more about mine health than any work.Yeah it happened me at least for 2-3 times that i had to take some sick leaves and breaks from mine office work.Though i work as a partimer, some times get sick due to bad wether or pollution.Yeah the best way to recover from these types of sickness is to take ample rest, its just because of over working.