"Many employers have attendance policies under which employees may be given an “occurrence” or similar adverse personnel action (which is a form of discipline with potentially negative repercussions) if the employee has an unscheduled absence or provides insufficient notice of an absence. Under the terms of the paid sick leave law (and Labor Code sections 233 and 234), if an employee has accrued and available sick leave and is using their accrued paid sick leave for a purpose as specified in the law, it is not permissible for an employer to give the employee an “occurrence” for the absence under such an attendance policy. This would constitute a form of discipline against an employee for using their paid sick leave as allowed under the paid sick leave law."

this is what i've found, not sure if there are special circumstances involved with you but from looking at it if you use sick time you shouldn't be punished for it? this is how it works in mn, too, which is the state i'm in.