[huebnerob]

Many hourly jobs actually don't get paid for sick time off, or sick hours are accrued as a benefit that you use-or-lose. The former scenario is obviously not fraud, but even in the latter scenario they've earned the pay they're getting while sick from prior work.

[bryanrasmussen]

Ok, I didn't know that about the American system (most of the years I lived there I did not work so I probably never had occasion to encounter this situation). So if one of the those two scenarios apply here it probably wouldn't be prosecutable as fraud.

on edit: just woke up when I wrote this, changed worked to lived because otherwise did not make sense.