Sick pay

How are your guys restaurants letting you use sick time? My old restaurant let us use it like vacation time or would add a few hours here or there if we didn’t have as many hours a certain week. My new restaurant just changed their policy requiring us to actually be sick. I transferred a few months ago and never call out. I discussed it with my gm and he said I can only use it for calling out for scheduled hours and I have to be sick. I never call out so this leaves me having to randomly call out to get my earned sick time. So my question is what would you guys do in my situation? And what’s it like at your restaurant trying to use sick time?