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 pressure to work during time of illnes for fear of lack of pay. On-the-job accidents are spurred by impaid judgement or motor skills due to illness or illness-related medications. The highest-risk occupations, such as oconstruction, showed the highest discrepancy in incidents based upon paid and unpaid leave.
The argument makes several assumptions regarding the relationship between paid and unpaid leaves in work place and occurence of on-the-job accidents. These assumptions though are riddled with holes and if they are just
assumed to be true without exploring the reasoning behind the argument and analyse them, the hypothesis would be based on a shaky foundation and any real-life implementation of solutions to this problem, would likely not
yield the expected results.
The argument assumes that there is a direct correlation between work-related accidents and the benefit of paid sick leaves. While this may hold some water for desk-jobs, assumption falls apart for jobs that involve field work
such as construction. Strenous work like construction involve workers using heavy machinery, most of which are dangerous if not used properly. Even the most efficient worker is likely to end up in an accident at site, due
to number of reasons ranging from treacherous movement of heavy material, fall from a huge height while working, dealing with materials which could be toxic after prolonged exposure, etc. Construction workers are more likely
do develop health problems due to inhaling dust and other materials from the site than due to other work related accidents. Therefore provision of paid sick leaves does not decrease the likelihood of accidents at work place
for fields involving strenous labor.
When it comes to fields which involve desk-job, there are very few factors which could cause some work related accident resulting in causing major harm to the employee. Due to the very nature of such jobs, most of the work-related
incidents that could possibly are due to accidents that a person/people have no control over. Fire in office, lift stuck in between floors, etc. The effect of an employee working even when they are sick, due to fear of lack of pay,
suffer it's consequences due to their own decreased productivity. Lack of concentration or focus due to illness causes them to make some mistakes, which will likely result in a loss for the entity they are working for and themselves.
But it will rarely lead to any work related accidents that could serious maim them or anyone else. Though it is true that employees will use sick leaves to recover if they are paid, the end result will be that the employees can function
when they are recovered and serve the organisation to the best of their abilities without any fear of lack of pay. This boosts productivity and always a desired effect for the organisation or entity they are working for.
The argument makes several assumptions by hypothesizing direct correlation between paid/unpaid sick leaves and work-related accidents. But there are major holes in the hypothesis which if turns out to be true, will break the argument apart.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 11 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 13 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 462 350
No. of Characters: 2303 1500
No. of Different Words: 224 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.636 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.985 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.635 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 158 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.875 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.882 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.355 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.538 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 8, column 125, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...an due to other work related accidents. Therefore provision of paid sick leaves does not ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 12, column 16, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
...ost of the work-related incidents that could possibly are due to accidents that a person/peop...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 17, column 186, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...are major holes in the hypothesis which if turns out to be true, will break the ar...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, regarding, so, therefore, while, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2369.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 460.0 441.139720559 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73544524356 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 204.123752495 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497826086957 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 722.7 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.546910834 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.611111111 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5555555556 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 14.0 5.15768463074 271% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => 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: 0.29534557191 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0994070914747 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0587321073804 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105699733529 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0590195674239 0.0628817314937 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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