Healthy workplace contradiction

This is an excerpt from an email we received at work today:

With flu season underway, now is a good time to review the actions we can all take to ensure a healthy workplace.
There are a number of simple steps that we can all take each and every day to help prevent the spread of infection. As outlined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, these include:
• Wash your hands often and thoroughly in warm, soapy water or use hand sanitizer;
• Cough and sneeze in your arm, not your hand;
• Keep common surfaces and items clean and disinfected; and
• Stay home if you are sick, unless directed to seek medical care.

I find it interesting that it instructs you to stay home if you are sick at the same time the employer is trying to shove this “wellness plan/short term disability” down our throats.
Yes, there is a gap between our accumulated sick days and long term disability and some changes may need to happen, through fair negotiations. However, I think that would be better done by bringing in a sick SUB plan, like we have for maternity and parental benefits. (I sent this up as a bargaining demand from our local) There will be an unpaid waiting period with any short term plan the employer is proposing. So, what would that mean? If you have exhausted your small amount (proposed by employer) of sick days for that year and you get the flu, what you are really facing is the choice of going to work sick or taking the day without pay. Not a great choice really. Do you think so???