This is somehow a scandal: government employees are taking their sick leave benefits as rolled over retirement or health care benefits:

A Journal Sentinel review of 67 Milwaukee area municipalities and school districts found that 36 of them allow employees to take cash payouts for unused sick days, subject to a cap.

I don't really understand why this is a problem. If your employment contract specifies sick leave, and you don't get sick, that means . . . what? That you just leave the benefit? The incentive for that would mean people would call in sick (or treat minor ailments as worth avoiding for) to take their benefits when they can.

Not a good idea in establishing long-term contracts.

Much better would be to convert unused sick leave days into wages and have them accrue into a retirement fund or, as happens in a few of these stories, medical insurance. I favor the former.

So, tell me, why is this bad?

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