http://shine.yahoo.com/tag/co-workers http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/money/work-poll-do-you-get-paid-if-you-take-a-sick-day-241628/ Remember the last time you were sick? Were you able to take a day off from work to get better or would taking a sick day have meant losing a day's pay?

More than 46 million U.S. workers don't have paid sick days. As the AP reports, that translates to about 43 percent of people working for private companies, and most of them are low-paid employees at small businesses, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's lousy going to work when you're sick, but having to push yourself into work because you can't afford to take the time off to get better is really lousy.]]> nospam@example.com (Dory Devlin, Shine staff) http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/money/work-poll-do-you-get-paid-if-you-take-a-sick-day-241628/#comments http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/money/work-poll-do-you-get-paid-if-you-take-a-sick-day-241628/