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Full-time workers accrue 13 sick leave days per year with no limit on carrying unused leave year to year.
Federal workers could get more paid leave if covid-19 prevents them from working | Eric Yoder | February 10, 2021 | Washington PostIn some contracts, unused sick days were instead awarded as paid time off.
How We Found Pricey Provisions in New Jersey Police Contracts | by Agnes Chang, Jeff Kao and Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Andrew Ford, Asbury Park Press | February 8, 2021 | ProPublicaSo in 2014, at age 48, Caruso retired with a payout of $342,000, which included his unused sick and vacation time and a three-month “terminal leave” payment to mark the end of his career.
How the Police Bank Millions Through Their Union Contracts | by Andrew Ford, Asbury Park Press, and Agnes Chang, Jeff Kao and Agnel Philip, ProPublica | February 8, 2021 | ProPublicaKatrina Lipinsky told the Philadelphia Inquirer and WHYY that she wasn’t asked for her medical credentials before she began administering vaccine doses, and that plenty of unused doses were left over after seniors were turned away on Saturday.
Philadelphia let ‘college kids’ distribute vaccines. The result was a ‘disaster,’ volunteers say. | Antonia Noori Farzan | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostThe situation deepened anxiety among providers and state officials about requesting doses that might ultimately go unused, potentially endangering their future supplies.
‘Pixie dust’: Why some vaccine sits on shelves while shortages intensify nationwide | Isaac Stanley-Becker, Lena H. Sun | January 22, 2021 | Washington Post
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTLife-saving vaccines for those illnesses and others are—without enough medical workers to disburse them—going unused.
But like those old cards, some of the data goes unused, although I occasionally browse through it and show it off to friends.
The Best Quantified Self Site You Haven’t Heard Of | Jamie Todd Rubin | August 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEx-candidates cannot spend unused campaign money on themselves.
Ex-Politicians Keeping $100 Million in Private Slush Funds | Dave Levinthal, Center for Public Integrity | May 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor 27 years, the 105 floors of Ryugyong Hotel, a monstrous three-winged, glass-and-concrete pyramid, have gone unused.
Happening to cast his eyes that way, he saw a light where he had never seen one before—in the little unused chapel.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodA horse unused to it will sometimes stand shivering instead of taking his rider out of danger.
Hunting the Lions | R.M. BallantyneThe Koreans call this noise kang-siong, and it seems almost deafening to one unused to it.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeMonsieur and Madame Pujol had a sacred museum of these unused objects—the pride of their lives.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeEvidently many of the rooms had for years been unused, but, as Mrs. Winkley had said, everything was "in perfect condition."
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph Hocking
British Dictionary definitions for unused
(ʌnˈjuːzd) not being or never having been made use of
(ʌnˈjuːst) (postpositive foll by to) not accustomed or used (to something)
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