wait, really? There's no maternity leave?
Haha no. There are zero federal laws on minimum leave time of any sort. Sick, vacation, personal, parental, etc. It is all up to each company. And even within companies, there are varying policies.
Nope, many offices tie it in with short term disability leaves.
I work in health care as well. Shit fucking sucks.Yup. My workplace is thankfully closed on most major holidays, but if the holiday in question falls on a day I'd normally work, then I have to use my PTO/sick leave to cover it or else I don't get paid for that day. Also, I caught covid a couple of weeks ago, and they wouldn't pay for it. I had to use my PTO to cover my time away. And I work in the healthcare industry, so...
The US fucking sucks.
Please don't say mean things about our capitalist hellhole. We enjoy the highest state of human existence. Our priorities are fully in order. Envy us, learn from us!
Of course! Thousands even with insurance.Jesus. That is fucked up.
Am I right in thinking you also have the pleasure of paying hospital bills associated with childbirth?
I get 3 days of sick leave per year. Three fucking days out of 365.
3/365.
0.0082% of the year I can call off sick without repercussions.
Federal employees have 12 weeks paid time off.
That is just fucking indecent. Jesus.
Americans live to work, and don't even think about dying if you're out of sick time or can't find someone to cover your shift.
And if you don't earn enough to get even close to having a decent retirement, if one at all, by your late 50's, it's very likely you'll be working the rest of your life.
My dad's worked retail for the last 20 years and is almost 65, but will still need to work retail probably forever. There's no upward mobility, even with managerial promotions etc.
This actually means you have the right to work without having to pay union dues. It's still awful, but it's not what you think it is.
The most insidious part is that the corporations have everyone indoctrinated with pride over not getting PTO here. Many people gloat about never taking a single day off, be it sick, vacation, whatever. It's a huge point of pride. People save up "massive" (in quotations as 100 hours is actually still not much in the grand scheme compared to europe) amounts over many years and pride themselves over that, bragging at how many they banked up. The common worker thinks you are a weakling loser if you take a day off sick or just not want to be at work 24/7. So not only is your boss in on this, but all the tenured coworkers are too.
yeah its mindblowing that basically in all Europe its a thing you dont have to even considerInsanity. Glad I live in Sweden. When I'm sick the only thing any boss has ever told me was "get better", and not even in a pushing kind of way but in a very honest way as far as I have been able to tell.
I know right! My genetics lab doesn't even provide us sick leave. We have 2 "floating holidays" per year.
Nah, this is just the bootstraps argument again, isn't it? By mandating companies to offer more generous (and I use that word advisedly) benefits, it ultimately comes out of everyone's pockets. "Why should I have to pay for your sick leave when I don't need to take sick leave myself? Pay for it yourself!"Ok so we all know this place is like 90% progressives. So has anyone ever seen this question posed in a conservative forum? We're just talking about more vacation time and sick leave, not this socialism stuff that they hate so much. This is just one of those things that I feel like when they wouldn't be against, at least not the majority.
Gotta go to the US some time to roleplay the middle ages a bit. Are you americans OK with me showing up with an armor and stuff to match the policies?yeah its mindblowing that basically in all Europe its a thing you dont have to even consider
i am in europe no thank youGotta go to the US some time to roleplay the middle ages a bit. Are you americans OK with me showing up with an armor and stuff to match the policies?
Nah, this is just the bootstraps argument again, isn't it? By mandating companies to offer more generous (and I use that word advisedly) benefits, it ultimately comes out of everyone's pockets. "Why should I have to pay for your sick leave when I don't need to take sick leave myself? Pay for it yourself!"
It's that same old bullshit argument that ultimately boils down to: Fuck you, got mine.
The problem with that argument is that many companies just don't.So I won't get into too many details. The government doesn't offer the benefits because the arguement is that the companies cover that with their benefits packages and all of that. Some jobs have better options and coverage than others. I've had some that offered several months partially paid and some that were less. Also paternity leave is becoming a bigger thing as well that's hit or miss with employees.
Each company also has their own rules on PTO, Sick Leave and all of that from how it's provided to how it's earned. Normally it's 140 hours per year and employee is in charge of how they use it. On top of this employees can sign up for something called FMLA for long term absences. FMLA can be very good for a lot of people to use.
This isn't exactly correct. Many states do have laws concerning various types of leave.Haha no. There are zero federal laws on minimum leave time of any sort. Sick, vacation, personal, parental, etc. It is all up to each company. And even within companies, there are varying policies.