Sick Leave Abuse in the Workplace Sick leave is one thing that every employee needs and is approved and mandated by work related laws and such using of employees' sick leave options leave abuses occur along the way and the central question for this research will have to be, 'How can sick leave abuse be managed effectively?', this pertains to the workplace. There are several factors affecting sick leave and why employees resulted into such abuses of the privilege known for, management of sick leave is effective if there can be available information from official statistics and descriptive studies on association between demographic background factors and sickness absence, evidence on the causal relationship between these factors and sick leave is lacking. There was moderate scientific evidence that the amount of sickness absence is influenced by the design of the social insurance system, but insufficient evidence on the magnitude of change required to influence the level of ...