An estimated 44 million workers nationwide do not receive pay when they take sick days off.
Sir Michael's comments follow claims made last year in an online forum that some disruptive pupils were paid to truant during inspections while weak teachers were encouraged to take sick leave.
Rochdale Infirmary will not take very sick patients or emergency cases between 1800 BST and 0800 BST because of a shortage of doctors.
The wait at the Apple store was almost as bad as being stuck having to take a sick child to an an emergency room.
He is determined not to take any sick days and will even be working on Christmas, sporting a Santa costume at a local residential home.
We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but what does all that mean to a mother or father who can't take a sick child to the doctor?
Businesses with fewer than five employees would be eligible to take five unpaid sick days with job protection.
Certainly in all of these cases, self-care would free up doctors to take care of more sick patients.
Another concern is that private insurers will be reluctant to provide drug-only cover for fear that only the very sick will take it up.
There are other ways to get some exercise and reap the benefits - a Dutch study found commuters who cycle take less time off sick.
Staff now take 12 days' sick each year on average - down from 22 days before the new rules were brought in, the firm says.
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The legislation forces insurers to take all customers, sick and healthy.
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If these and the hundreds of local ads like them are to be believed, politicians in America are tax-and-spend, sex-crazed criminals who want to take medicine away from sick people.
HIV-infected workers who get no treatment typically take 55 days of sick leave in their final two years at work, says Sanlam in a newly finished survey of South African firms.
Psychologists at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, who carried out the study, found that victims tended to take seven days off sick a year more than those who had not been bullied.
He said that meant people no longer necessarily worked a strict five-day, Monday to Friday week, and they no longer saved all their socialising for the weekend - affecting the days people might take off as "sick leave".
One part of the bill that kicked in last month was supposed to force insurers take all kids healthy or sick.
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It can take several weeks before becoming sick, the FDA said.
The structure of the welfare budget suggests that serious reform must take on spending on the sick and disabled, which accounts for 24% of the total budget.
You can't have insurance companies have to take somebody who's sick, who's got a preexisting condition, if you don't have everybody covered, or at least almost everybody covered.
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If you had a situation where not everybody was covered but an insurance company had to take you because you were sick, what everybody would do is they'd just wait till they got sick and then they'd go buy insurance.
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Much like the Greek and the French citizens, Rangers nation refused to take its medicine when it got sick.
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After listening to that argument, Gianluca Eusani says he accepts that the sick Italian economy will take time to recover.
One possibility in need of further study might be to take the drugs when you feel sick and stop taking them when you feel better.
If they can't get in until a number of years later, many people won't want to take the chance they might get sick in the interim.
There's a drug that has been used to treat alcoholism called Antabuse, and what Antabuse does it changes the metabolism of alcohol so that people who drink and take Antabuse feel horribly, horribly sick.
"History shows that an awful lot of people will take those days whether they're sick or not, " Mr. Bloomberg said.
Still, Ward didn't think Francis would have to take any unusual measures to avoid getting sick and faced the same problems as all elderly people.
But I think it'll take us a long while to get sick of it because there's so many names to get to know and go to hear, and it just seems like a really terrific race.
Find the cure for cancer, tend to the sick, nurse the elderly, take care of the children: whatever.
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