How many sick leaves do I get every year?
Sick leave allowance is a quota the employer sets, per leave type, per year. No universal figure exists to quote, and no number here would be right for most readers. The allocation applying to you is recorded against your name and shown as days used, allocated and remaining.
This is the single most common question an internal HR desk receives, and the honest answer is almost always a pointer rather than a number.
Allowances differ by employer, by role, by contract and by country, and they change between years. A page stating a figure would be confidently wrong for a large share of the people asking.
What is consistent is where the answer lives. A leave type carries an annual quota, and a per-person grid records any allocation that differs from it.
Sick leave is often combined with emergency leave as one type rather than two. That is worth checking before assuming two separate balances exist.
Two flags on the type carry most of the rest of the answer. One says whether the allowance is paid. One says whether unused days can be exchanged rather than taken. Both are set per type, so one type can differ from the next inside the same company.
Nothing about any of this is inherited from a default the product picked. Every type, quota and flag is set by whoever configured it.
So the useful move is always the same. Open your own usage, find the row, read the three figures. That answer is about you, which is something no published number can be.
The support desk exists for the cases the record does not settle. Leaves is one of its standing categories, alongside attendance, benefits and policy questions.
Open your own leave usage and read the row for the relevant type. That figure is specific to you, which no published number can be.
Related questions
Is sick leave paid?
Each leave type carries its own paid or unpaid flag, so the answer is recorded against the type rather than being universal. Read the flag rather than assuming.
What if I run out?
That is a policy conversation rather than a product one. An unpaid type commonly exists for cases beyond a paid allowance, and the rules around it are the employer's.
Does the policy assistant answer this?
It searches your published policies and answers in plain language. For anything that matters, open the policy it points to, which is the final word.