OMG, what a stupid policy! 
If you didn't use any of your sick pay throughout the year & in January you got your sick pay paid to you in a lump sum, minus taxes of course, and...a special lunch with the company president! I have never seen more sickly people at work! My cube was next to a woman who never called in sick & she'd be coughing & sneezing & I'm sure she spent entire mornings in the bathroom a few times. I never said anything but my coworker who sat on the other side of her, was pissed & complained to our manager, but he said there was nothing he could do, so the coworker took the issue to HR, who defended the policy & said it kept sick calls down. The coworker consulted an attorney & a few weeks later there was an announcement that the no-sick-day-appreciation-payback program had been cancelled & all you got was lunch with the president. I quit that year, but I suspect the following year there were significantly fewer people at the reward luncheon.
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