We have staff who have negative sick leave balances. Since legal requirements vary from state to state, you should check with a local employment lawyer to find out whether you can properly deduct excess sick time at termination. You can avoid this problem in the future by changing your policy so that workers who are out of sick days must either use vacation days or take unpaid time off. Under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, companies can require workers to use up all their paid leave before taking unpaid family or medical leave. For more on the FMLA, click here .
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