You rang 5miles.
Sick leave allocation is earnt as credits per calandar month you work. 10.59 hours are earnt for a month where an employee receives pay for at least 10 days work (works out at approx 15 days a year).
Of that, 10 "days' (aasuming an average shift is about 8.6 hours) of them can be "taken" without the submission of a "blue form" (medical certificate endorsement from a doctor etc....). Any sick leave not taken for the year is carried over (there are people with hundreds of hours sick leave owing, but it isn't paid out on retirement or whatever), but the 10 sickies a year still stands. There have been instances (you out there Coolen
) of staff being interviewed regarding the amout of sick days they have taken.
As for requesting and being knocked back for leave and taking a sickie, I can't comment on that simply because I personally have never seen it done by anyone here.