Sick Leave Benefits

This paper aims to discuss how are the integrated paid time off policies different than holiday, vacation, sick leave, and personal leave policies.

The integrated paid time off policies is a system where the employees get consistent wage payment on their rest days, sick leaves, maternity leaves, vacation, personal leave, and the public holidays and subject to his employment agreement. For instance, if an employee is given up to 30 days of integrated paid time off plan per year, it means the employee is entitled for 30 paid off days in one year where he could use the off days for his personal leaves, sick leaves, holidays, vacation and will be paid. However, if the employee opts for extra off days in same year upon the completion of the 30 days paid time off, he would not compensated for additional time off or off days. The reason for the companies to implement the integrated paid time off system is to ensure that the staffs have adequate time off, to reduce the costs and the workers’ absenteeism, to enhance work place morale, to streamline the administration as

Personal leave policy is a policy which allows employees to take leave for their personal purpose and it is excluded from the paid rest days, sick days and the public holidays. Therefore, it is forbidden to withhold an employee’s maternity leaves, sick leave and the public holiday from the employee’s personal leave. Employers implementing the personal leave policies in order to granting the employees paid time off from their obligations to fulfil their personal needs during work schedules. For instance, in Malaysia an employee is entitled to annual leave upon the completion of 12 months of continuous service with the same employer. The length of personal leaves granted the employees subjects to the span of the service with the same