A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that
employees with paid sick leave are 28% less likely to be involved in a work-related
accident than employees who do not receive payment for sick leave. Researchers
hypothesize that employees with unpaid sick leave feel pressured to work during time
of illness for fear of lack of pay. On-the-job accidents are then spurred by impaired
judgment or motor skills due to illness or illness-related medications. The highestrisk
occupations, such as construction, showed the highest discrepancy in incidents
based upon paid and unpaid leave.
The argument is based on several assumptions which may or may not be true depending upon the situations and circumstances. The main point of the argument is that employees should be paid even when they are on sick leave. This, obviously, is not as simple as it appears to be because the company or the institution has to consider numerous factors before adopting the idea of paying the employee on their sick leave.
Firstly, the study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might have been in only a few fields of occupation such as construction and industrial work which requires one to work with great care and diligence. There are other fields of occupation which are not so arduous and hence the employees in this field can even work during their sickness.
Secondly, the workload on the person who is sick can be reduced and compensated by any other employee in the company which eventually solves the problem of paying or not paying during sick leaves. Employees can be encouraged to work harder and arduously after they recover from their illness in order to make up for the unpaid sick leave that they had to go through. They could even work overtime in order to get paid and recover the loss that they faced during their illness.
Another important assumption upon which the argument is based is all the employees who request for the sick leave are actually sick and not prevaricating about their illness. Assuming that a company pays an employee on his/her sick leave, the employee would have a greater tendency to fake his/her sickness and get another paid leave and this could continue for a long time without being noticed. Hence, a busy company will have to face a substantial loss due to lack of productive work and more expenditure if their employees tend to fake sickness.
As not all the employees are bogus, a company should hence be subjective towards paying an employee or not during their sick leave. In occupations such as construction, labors should be asked to rest during their sickness and incited to work overtime during their salubrious days in order to compensate for the loss the faced. To avoid work-related accidents, instead of paying the employee, they should rather be encouraged to work overtime and make up for the loss and strictly restrict them on working while being sick.
In a nutshell, the argument is based upon absurd assumptions and need to reflect on the points mentioned above in order to conclude with proper logic and reasoning.
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Essay evaluation report
somehow out of topic.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 430 350
No. of Characters: 2041 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.554 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.747 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.515 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.332 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.377 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.669 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.135 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d can even work during their sickness. Secondly, the workload on the person who...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... that they faced during their illness. Another important assumption upon which ...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, as to, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2089.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 428.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8808411215 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58645915117 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.450934579439 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 627.3 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 38.7450928793 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.266666667 119.503703932 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5333333333 23.324526521 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.70786347227 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298714543872 0.218282227539 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116684188672 0.0743258471296 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0642758140734 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157566735034 0.128457276422 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0665537119559 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.3550499002 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.