I understand my “days” mentioned by you in an explanation of sick leave meant working days excluding weekends and public holidays. Please confirm. Secondly, if I total the number of days as mentioned by you it is 75  (15+10+10+10+30). If an employee is granted sick days more than the total (75), is there any provision of Labour Law for treating such cases or has this been left to the discretion of the employer?

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Answer: If it is a normal sickness, as we said earlier, the sick leave will be as follows: 15 days with full pay, 10 days three quarters of the pay, 10 days half pay, 10 days at quarter pay and 30 days without pay according to Article 69 of the Labour Law. This does not mean only working days. If weekends or holidays fall in between, they will be counted. However, according to Article 49, if a sickness or injury not related to work, sees the employee use up all the above entitlements the contract — if the employer desires — can be considered as terminated.
But if an employee suffers a sickness or injury related to work — including while going to or from work, then the worker — (according to Article 93) is entitled to full salary for first six months of the treatment and half salary every month after that until he recovers.