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.
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.
The authority currently has a target of 12 days sick leave per worker.
Her reluctance to back paid-sick leave had even become a cornerstone of a rival campaign.
"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.
Three months of leave is allowed for the birth of a child or to care for a sick family member, among other things.
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.
Ms. Drew eventually returned from sick leave and to a certain extent reasserted herself as head of the chief investment office.
Business owners are also wary of the possibility of a lapse in their operations if paid sick leave days are abused.
The ECJ has also ruled that the long-term sick have the right to accumulate at least a year of unused annual 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.
Bloomberg, a businessman-turned-politician, had opposed the idea of requiring paid sick leave, saying that many small enterprises can't afford it.
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.
They are seeking the reinstatement of a number of staff who, they claim, have been victimised for taking "excessive" sick leave.
Consultants have told the BBC there are also concerns over staffing the emergency department, covering holiday and sick leave, and the fact that the rest of the hospital system does not follow a seven-day working pattern shift, which has a knock on effect especially at the weekends.
The court in Luxembourg said the EU Working Time Directive grants workers a right to at least four weeks' paid annual leave "even where such leave coincides with periods of sick leave".
Nancy Rankin, a senior fellow at Better Balance, an organization devoted to workplace issues and a supporter of the bill, said evidence from San Francisco, which approved similar legislation, shows mandating paid sick leave won't devastate the business community.
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