What is Sick leave?
'''Sick leave''' is time off from [[employment|work]] that workers can use to stay home because they are sick. ==Overview== Paid sick leave is a requirement in many nations around the world. Most European, many Latin American, a few African and a few Asian countries have legal requirements for paid sick leave. ==History== Already in 1500 [[Anno Domini|BC]], at least some of the [[Worker|workers]] who built the [[Tomb|tombs]] of Egyptian [[Pharaoh|pharaohs]] received paid sick leave as well as state-sponsored [[healthcare]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/02/17/even-the-ancient-egyptians-had-paid-sick-days/|title=Even the ancient Egyptians had paid sick days|author=Anne Austin|date=17 February 2015|work=Washington Post|access-date=8 September 2015}} </ref> ==Sick pay== '''Sick pay''' is money paid to a person who is not able to work because they are ill. This may come from the [[business]] they normally work for, from [[health insurance]], or from [[social security]]. To get the money most people will need a sick note from a [[medical doctor]] to show that they cannot work. ==Examples== In the [[United Kingdom]] (UK), [[General practitioner|general practitioners]] had to give people sick notes since the National Insurance Act 1911.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sick Note|last=Millward|first=Gareth|publisher=OUP|year=2022|isbn=9780192865748|location=Oxford|pages=2}}</ref> They could get 10 shillings a week [[Sickness benefit]] for 26 weeks. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Society]] [[Category:Civil rights]] [[Category:Human rights]] [[Category:Employment law]] [[Category:Social security]]