Eighty-five-year-old Elena Griffing hasn't taken a sick day on her job at an Oakland, Calif.
Twenty-four percent said they had e-mailed and 11% had sent a text message notifying their employer that they were taking a sick day.
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Pike read the book while still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, picking it up one afternoon while heading home for a sick day.
When it comes to informing the employer about a sick day, some workers said they bypassed a phone call to the boss by using digital communications.
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New York City and Denver shot down paid sick day mandates last year, at least in part because of concerns that the mandates would threaten the survival of small businesses, or hurt their ability to hire.
While he hadn't logged a sick day in 10 years, Vyhnanek hadn't shared his food-preparation techniques with anyone either. (There was an assistant chef, but he only knew his way around appetizers and desserts.) One day, the odds caught up: Felled by the flu, Vyhnanek closed the restaurant on a Saturday night, leaving bills for 90 dinners on the table.
In Massachusetts, paid sick-day legislation was reintroduced last year following three unsuccessful attempts at passage.
She told the call operator that her son was not breathing and had been sick all day.
I'm the fire fighter that called in sick that day, only to discover that someone else died in his place.
"I went and had a pint of kombucha one time and I was like sick for a day, " he said.
Ralph, akin to giant Nintendo ape Donkey Kong, is sick of his day job as an 8-bit bad guy without agency who is forced to wreak havoc.
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Traffic is picking up: Each of its clinics saw, on average, 20 sick folks a day in October, an increase over 17 patients a day during the summer.
Staff members made sure that all patients who made a sick visit the day before got a follow-up call within twenty-four hours, that every test ordered was reviewed, that every unexpected problem was addressed.
' So I had to work that day sick, and who knows how many customers I got sick because I couldn't go to the back and leave the counter to wash my hands after every sneeze or nose wipe.
Raychel Ferguson died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, a day after having her appendix removed in Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry.
Her daughter, Raychel, died in June 2001 at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, a day after having her appendix removed in Altnagelvin.
Raychel Ferguson died in June 2001 at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, a day after having her appendix removed in Altnagelvin Hospital.
The following Monday, he called in sick, and later that day, the British Foreign office announced his resignation.
Health officials said diners at Copenhagen's Noma restaurant fell sick over a five-day period in February, suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea.
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.
On that day Litvinenko fell sick, suffering (it eventually turned out) the effects of poisoning by polonium, a rare radioactive substance that killed him three weeks later.
So if you are driving yourself to work each day and getting sick of the prices at the pump, this is a great time to think about switching to public transportation, as well as taking advantage of Commuter Accounts to pay for your qualified commuting expenses.
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But in reality, we're more likely to get sick by shaking hands throughout the day than by kissing.
Every hour of every day they tend to our sick, our elders, our children.
He worked on it every day even when he was sick, and took his laptop to the hospital to draft notes and passages during chemotherapy treatments.
So if you wake up on Election Day and you're sick, the car broke down, there's no babysitter, somebody is throwing up, wake up with an ear infection -- this is that time of year.
It may not be as much fun as slinging mud at our political opponents but I promise you it will be far more useful to you when the day comes that you get sick and the politics pale in importance to figuring out how you are going to pay for your illness.
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One said she recalls "feeling sick" if Mr Alway was teaching that day.
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The anticipated Google flight search engine launched with much fanfare the other day, and I am already sick of it.
The ICRC said they had evacuated 530 people on Thursday and 350 the day before, including families as well as sick and wounded people.
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