• Mittelstand managers suggest that sick pay should start at 80% of the full wage, and drop with a prolonged absence.

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  • On the other hand, is it really a problem that sick people have to pay more for insurance than healthy people?

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  • They found that sick leave was reduced by 39%, typing speed and accuracy improved by 9% and the lawyers' billable hours increased by 7%.

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  • But Brown's radical surgery carries risks at a company that, by his own admission, isn't all that sick -- it's just old and flabby.

    FORBES: A shock to the system

  • The payment scheme also allowed him to design the clinic around the things that sick, expensive patients most need and value, rather than the ones that pay the best.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • Shareholders, the real owners of corporate America, will never be privy to the virus of entitlement, because the 1% will make sure they never get the chance to have that sick kind of power.

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  • Gradually, Guarneri came to realize that sick people feel better if they get the time to tell their stories to a doctor, an opportunity altogether lacking if the healer is rushing from patient to patient.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Researchers from the Institute of Education in London have found that sick and disabled pupils are initially popular with fellow pupils - and that it is only in later years that they can suffer from discrimination.

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  • The university sent e-mails to faculty members asking them to create contingency plans so that sick students are not required to go to class, and to commuter students and their parents warning them that the students may have to be isolated if they fall ill.

    CNN: Swine flu goes to college

  • I'm the fire fighter that called in sick that day, only to discover that someone else died in his place.

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  • It may just be that the virus turns up in bees that are sick for other reasons, or that it is one of many triggers, potentially including pesticides or other pathogens, that can cause a whole hive to die off.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Last month, America's Food and Drug Administration decided to relax the rules on television advertising, acknowledging that many sick people are unaware of the treatments that might help them.

    ECONOMIST: Too clever by half

  • Chalk up the increase, in part, to fancy new drugs that keep sick patients alive longer, forcing the insurance companies to boost prices to cover the cost of providing all that additional care.

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  • Prosecutors acknowledge that Yates was sick but argued that she knew right from wrong and was thus not legally insane at the time of the killings.

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  • And we've seen insurance companies abuse the system by taking somebody that gets sick and dropping their coverage.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • After listening to that argument, Gianluca Eusani says he accepts that the sick Italian economy will take time to recover.

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  • This is to ensure that the sick, vunerable, and those in need of urgent help will not be put at risk.

    BBC: Council staff strike causes havoc

  • Dr Golomb says that many studies have found that exposure to AChEis is linked to the kind of chronic symptoms that the sick veterans report.

    ECONOMIST: Was Gulf-war syndrome caused by chemical poisoning?

  • Then again, the ability to not miss out on their favorite sports can keep staff feeling content and less inclined to make that fake sick call.

    FORBES: 5 Ways to Stay Sane During March Madness

  • Mr Harris said there were currently no proposals being discussed by the Trust and that reducing sick pay and performance related pay were part of national proposals.

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  • Handwashing and hand sanitizers, along with using disinfectant on surfaces that a sick person may have come in contact with are the best methods to prevent spread.

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  • Patrick Pelloux, head of France's Association of Hospital Emergency Ward Doctors, warned that many sick people would have to wait on stretchers for hospital beds, French radio reported.

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  • It was important to Aryeh that his sick mother should, under no circumstances, see this guest from her window not even his back, not even his silhouette against the grape arbor.

    NEWYORKER: Heirs

  • That argument is now reinforced by the realisation that trucking sick pigs the length of the country is a highly effective way of spreading the foot-and-mouth virus far and wide.

    BBC: The pointless slaughter?

  • "It was very expensive, but Croatian people have great hearts, " said Djurdja Aleksic, a family friend and a member of Hrabro dijete (brave child), an organization that helps sick children.

    CNN: Croatians raise money for young girl's treatment in U.S.

  • "I had already done the second act, taking my journalism skills and putting them in a place I thought was meaningful -- helping people that were sick and dying, " said Sammons, 52.

    CNN: Laid-off workers find fulfillment in new careers

  • Koenig testified humbly and remorsefully that he was "sick" that he had to--at Skilling's direction--lie to Wall Street and to investors that Enron had exceeded earnings expectations, when in fact they had not.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • They include high school students (encouraging them to go into social science), doctors (arguing that letting sick, ill-informed patients choose between treatments shirks responsibility) and nonprofits (suggesting they do more experiments assessing whether their methods work).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • ' 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.

    CNN: Food workers, nurses forced to work sick

  • Mr Lyons said he had heard back in December that Mr Jobs was sick again and that this news will have taken a toll on Apple employees.

    BBC: Shock over Apple boss Steve Jobs' medical leave

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