Country-Aware Sick Pay, Out of the Box.
Sick leave is more complicated than a balance counter. Most countries treat consecutive illness within a defined window as a single 'spell' — and entitlement grows with tenure, has a tier structure, and intersects with statutory sick pay differently in each jurisdiction. Statutory defaults ship pre-configured for six of the seven supported countries: Swiss wage continuation under Art. 324a CO, German EFZG §3, Austrian EFZG §2, French L1226-1 maintien de salaire, Italian INPS sick pay, and UK Statutory Sick Pay. The United States has no federal paid-sick entitlement to seed, so you set that one up yourself. When a worker submits a leave request marked as illness, the system links it to an active spell or starts a new one, applies the country's entitlement curve, and writes paid versus unpaid days into the ledger. Reports show what's left of the entitlement window, per person, per spell.
Six Sick-Pay Regimes, Seeded. One You Write Yourself.
Statutory defaults. Editable per policy when your collective agreement says otherwise.
Art. 324a CO — Berner Skala.
Wage continuation scaled by service year and tracked per spell: three weeks in year one, up to six months from year twenty. The Berner Skala is what's seeded — rewrite the ladder for the Zürcher or Basler scale, or switch the policy to a KTG daily-allowance regime with a waiting period.
EFZG §3.
Six weeks at full pay per illness, after four weeks of employment. A recurrence inside 180 days comes back for review, because a fresh six weeks needs either six months free of that illness or twelve months since it first started.
EFZG §2.
Full pay per work year, scaling with seniority — six weeks under one year, up to twelve from twenty-five. Entitlement periods inside one work year combine. The half-pay band that follows is deliberately not modeled.
L1226-1 / loi de mensualisation.
The 90 % maintien de salaire band, from one year of seniority: thirty days, rising to ninety at thirty-one years, counted per service year. Your convention collective is usually more generous — edit the ladder per policy.
INPS indennità di malattia.
The 180-day statutory maximum per calendar year, modeled as a twenty-six-week ceiling. Sector CCNLs override the general ladder and set the comporto threshold — adjust the policy to yours.
Statutory Sick Pay.
Twenty-eight weeks per Period of Incapacity for Work. Two periods separated by fifty-six days or less link into one and share that ceiling. Employer enhancements layer on top of the statutory floor.
Nothing to seed — build your own.
There is no federal paid sick leave, so no template ships. Create the policy your state or company rules call for, in the same balance, spell or unlimited shapes as everywhere else.
Defaults Are Defaults. Check Your Collective Agreement.
Country defaults reflect federal labor law. Your industry's collective agreement (Gesamtarbeitsvertrag in CH/AT, Tarifvertrag in DE, convention collective in FR, contratto collettivo in IT) may set different — usually more generous — terms. Every policy value is editable; enter the agreement-specific numbers once and they apply from then on. If you're unsure what applies, ask your accountant or your industry association.
Where to Go Next.
The pages that sit next to this one — and the documentation when you want the detail.
Extend an Absence
Still sick on day two? Move the end date — hours, schedule, and balance follow. No second request.
Extend an Absence
Leave Requests
Approve, decline, or revoke. Nobody has to ask where their request stands.
Leave Requests
Leave & Rules
Policies, balances, and the approval queue — plus illness-spell tracking.
Leave & Rules