"If Christine Quinn had had her way, there would not have been a paid sick leave bill, " he said.
The 72-year-old archbishop - recently recovered after a long period of sick leave following a deep-vein thrombosis last winter - had said he was keen to resume his duties.
Although some individual companies offer a paid maternity leave benefit, many parents end up using a combination of short-term disability, sick leave, vacation, personal days and unpaid family leave.
According to an earlier ECJ ruling, workers who fall sick before a period of annual leave can also reschedule that leave period so that it does not clash with their sick leave.
The authority currently has a target of 12 days sick leave per worker.
Monmouthshire is the only authority to have a higher overall rate of sick leave with 13 days lost per employee on average.
And believe it or not, today roughly 40 percent of private-sector employees work at companies that don't offer a single day of paid sick leave.
He supports the Healthy Families Act, which would require all but the smallest companies to grant a minimum amount of paid sick leave, even to part-time workers.
Ms. Drew eventually returned from sick leave and to a certain extent reasserted herself as head of the chief investment office.
Her reluctance to back paid-sick leave had even become a cornerstone of a rival campaign.
Business owners are also wary of the possibility of a lapse in their operations if paid sick leave days are abused.
"For me, it is not a question of if we need paid sick leave, it is when and how that will happen, " she said.
"For me, it is not a question of if we need paid sick leave, it is when and how that will happen, " she said Friday.
Whatever the truth, it is hard to judge Benedict's papacy a success, though history may judge the greatest thing he did for the church was to leave it before he became a sick and disengaged figurehead like his predecessor.
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Mathai testified earlier that she slept in a closet, worked long days without vacation, days off or sick time and wasn't allowed to leave the property, a palatial stone mansion on a cliff overlooking the Mohawk River.
Police didn't identify the officer, a 12-year veteran who is now on sick leave.
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Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business advocacy group, said as a principle her organization doesn't support mandated sick leave by municipal government.
Indeed the mixture of an ailing football club with little to spend on quality players, and constant outgoings to cover, may yet leave Delia Smith as sick as a parrot.
Added to existing laws requiring overtime pay, sick leave and paid holidays, this makes a reasonable package.
But Mrs Aragon says that the relative quiet has not helped her escape a trauma which led to her taking 18 months' sick leave.
"Providing sick leave to working New Yorkers is truly a noble goal, and supporters of this bill have the best intentions, " said Ms. Quinn during the October 2010 news conference in which she effectively killed the measure.
The social services' sickness figures mean that overall the council averaged 12.9 days of sick leave per employee - the second highest for a Welsh local authority.
Sick leave among Nottinghamshire police officers has risen by more than a quarter, it has been revealed.
Viewers not raised on quick-cut cinematography may leave the theater a little dazed -- if not motion sick.
The ECJ has also ruled that the long-term sick have the right to accumulate at least a year of unused annual leave.
Opponents have faulted her, for example, for joining Bloomberg in opposing a plan to require businesses with at least five employees to provide paid sick leave.
Bloomberg, a businessman-turned-politician, had opposed the idea of requiring paid sick leave, saying that many small enterprises can't afford it.
Workers who fall sick during their annual leave are entitled to take corresponding paid leave at a later date, the EU's top court has ruled.
HIV-infected workers who get no treatment typically take 55 days of sick leave in their final two years at work, says Sanlam in a newly finished survey of South African firms.
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