Declan Murphy wrote:
> Paid sick leave isn't mandatory? In Australia at least, it is normal
> for an employee to receive a percentage (75% or so) of unused sick
> leave when they leave the company or organisation.

News to me. I left 3 organizations (government, private, university)
and never got a cent from unused sick leave.

I just Googled it a bit, and I see on the Qld govt's "Wageline" page:
"Normally an employer is not required to pay out accumulated sick leave
entitlements to an employee on termination of employment. However there
are a small number of awards and agreements where such an entitlement
exists."

(In government employment there used to be tricks like getting a tame
doctor to say you are too ill to work exactly the same amount of
time before you are due to retire as you had accumulated sick leave.)

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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