les - I read through your policy and it looks like it's based on common sense and reasonable expectations. I don;t know that I'd have told you I was feeling poorly, if I was working your club - to be quite honest - because I'm sure I'd have done OK anyway and I was the only one who was going to suffer. And because as I said I make a living at music - at performing fokl music - and I cannot afford to stay home just becasue my sinus is stuffed! To be fair, most people go tow or at the office or the school or the factory when they have a cold ... but at those places they often have sick pay.