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15 years ago, the company I worked for, piloted no limit on sick leave policy. The average number of sick leave taken fell from 12 days to 9 days. Company publised the statistics to employees and Only people whose sick leave exceeded 2 standard deviation were notified. We also piloted alternate Friday off, the absenteeism due to doctor, dentist, car service appointments fell off to negligible.

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"Only people whose sick leave exceeded 2 standard deviation were notified"

I don't understand what notified means? Notified of termination? So each year the company measured which people had the most sick days, which would of course be those dealing with cancer treatments as such, and fired them? IF so, it is reminiscent of Jack Welch's notorious dictat to fire the 10% "at the bottom" each year.

No doubt I am misunderstanding the policy you are describing, which is why I am asking for clarification.

Notified means they and their manager were told that the sick leave taken exceeded the norm, there was no retaliation, just as a check of reasonableness of leave. I am not sure how longer duration illness were treated, may be put on short-term disability benefit.

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