sick employee vs unwell employee

Both "sick employee" and "unwell employee" are correct and commonly used phrases in English. They can be used interchangeably to refer to an employee who is not feeling well.

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sick employee

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to refer to an employee who is not feeling well due to illness or health issues.

Examples:

The company provided paid sick leave for employees.
The sick employee was sent home to rest.
The sick employee called in to inform the manager.
The sick employee visited the company doctor.
The sick employee's workload was redistributed among colleagues.

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They flew me in to help deal with a sick employee.
They flew me in to help deal with a sick employee.
A sick employee receives no wage for the first sickness day, thereafter the employer continues to pay 80 % of the wage for two weeks.
If an employee is sick, your business does not break down, or stop.
The only employee who calls in sick around here is Lolly.
836 (S.D Iowa 1995), an employer intruded on the plaintiff employee's seclusion by having another employee investigate his credit card records in order to verify his sick day absences.
He was an excellent employee, at first, but then later he became convinced that one of our vaccines was making him sick.
They closed the employee break room, they cut our sick days.
But the bosses always have the option to dismiss sick when "it is necessary to permanently replace/ e-employee".
It is forbidden to dismiss an employee or e-because he or she is sick.
However, paid sick leave is unavailable to many American workers; and, if it is available, this benefit is often for the employee alone and not for the employee's family.
While I was preaching the Gospel, there was an employee who was sick.
Well, good thing you're a government employee and not a prison inmate, because government employees get sick days.
Each employee could choose between a number of benefits, such as a season ticket for the train, a folding bike, a baby-sitting service for sick children or extra holidays.
You've got your office, you've got neighbors, you've got one employee, one volunteer until she finds actual paid work or gets sick of you.
The decree prevents teachers from availing themselves of the same general employee rights as comparable categories of teachers in Denmark, e.g. as regards sick pay, maternity pay, occupational pensions and six weeks' leave.
Does Directive 2000/78, in so far as Article 1 thereof lays down a general framework for combating discrimination on the grounds of disability, include within its protective scope an employee who has been dismissed by her employer solely because she is sick?
short-term compensated absences (such as paid annual leave and paid sick leave) where the absences are expected to occur within 12 months after the end of the period in which the employees render the related employee service;

Alternatives:

unwell employee
ill employee
unhealthy employee
ailing employee
indisposed employee

unwell employee