How common is this in other workplaces? I'm in Portland, Oregon, US. My company requires that if you some of your 40 Oregon Sick Leave (OSL) hours, and you're out of accrued company sick pay, that you must spend vacation hours to cover that day. I'm sure this is legal, but it seems problematic. I had to use two weeks of medical leave earlier in the year, so I ran out of sick pay, and now if I call out sick again, they require me to spend my OSL and burn my vacation hours. If you have already spent your OSL, they all you to take Medical Leave or unexcused absences unpaid. I submitted a request to update this policy through the proper employee suggestion website they have set up, and I emailed our admin/HR pointing out that this policy seems problematic – discouraging people from calling out to save Vacation hours. It also hurts people who actually use medical leave the most, since we don't get many sick pay hours.