How generous of them.. my European coworkers used to take a month off every year around August, and we think we're being generous with a couple of days.
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When I take a sick day in Sweden, it's not counted as vacation. It's a sick day and I get 80% of my salary when being sick as well (every day after the first day of being sick).
Life is pretty good in that way.
That's just paid leave. You get as many sick days...as you are, you know, sick.
Well, to be honest, there are some limits in place for long term sickness
This is some late stage capitalism shit. Oh how generous we are, we allow you to be sick up to 5 days a year.
In my job in Europe, I get unlimited sick days as anyone should. If it’s long term, after the first year out, my salary drops from 100% to 70% for another year. Then the government takes over. And no, people do not abuse this system.
Also, obviously this is separate from my 30 days PTO.
The US needs to wake up!
I was sick pretty bad at the beginning of the year. Out a week and some days and all my sick days were used with half of my PTO. All because I got sick at the fucking work place.
The bill offers employers flexibility in accruing sick leave. However, by the 200th day of employment, it should amount to five days.
This is not enough, but it’s a start I guess.
At my company we tried to negotiate for paid sick leave on top of our meager Paid Time Off (no current distinction) and corporate basically laughed at us. This shit needs to not be optional, and not just in California. Everybody gets sick and/or needs to take care of someone who’s sick. Ignoring that basic fact of life is absurd and inhumane.
California should really learn from Midwestern Dems who is pushing fro 15 weeks of paid leave
Corporations are already upset about the push to pay existing workers more money. To have much more paid time off means they'd have to hire more workers to cover those (already run lean) shifts, AND pay them leave time too. Think of the profit loss!
You mean a decease in Profit Margins
There profits will increase because more people have more money to spend and time to spend that money
Ha, you're right, and isn't it ironic that doing the better thing for everyone ends up being more profitable? It's almost like they aren't concerned with the actual value that's lost, but more the difference between them and everyone else.
Right!!!!!
It’s almost always about the abuse of power than the acquisition of wealth itself
Back on Reddit I had a very old post reply saved from someone who through his work and connections had an inside view of the "wealthy", and they broke down the change from money to power as one goes from "just" millionaire to higher up. When money becomes no longer a concern, or rather when obtaining "stuff" (as Carlin would say) is no longer a factor, how much power and influence becomes more of a way to compare one's wealth to another. It may not even be important anymore on net value if one has a bigger leverage arm on things.
That’s spot on, and a lot their resistance to any sort of regulation is more out of distaste that the lessers put rules on them and it’s their right to abuse others and the environment
Progress can’t be made without that understanding
Gosh, five whole days!
Well, at least it's something. Looks like Lena Gonzalez is a Democrat. The cons are always going on about the "forgotten man", gee, I wonder - does this help that forgotten man more than, say, endless "investigations" into Hunter Biden revenge porn? What about holding up military promotions because you are doing performative nonsense for forced birthers?
The right is always hypocritically going on about the "forgotten man"; I think the left should remind them about what is really going on.