3mo ago

Paid sick days should be a basic right, not a privilege

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Paid sick days should be a basic right, not a privilege – The Independent

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Come to the EU, we have cookies (and paid sick leave)
- You need gas (fertilizer, heavy industry). We gotta build some gas pipelines and terminals on the east coast first. Then we coming. 🍁🇪🇺
But you see the billionaire CEOs need their 13 mega mansion and 7th mega yacht of the day!!
I had two paid sick days before the new rules. Everyone deserves 10.
- No limit is the correct answer.
  Or do you think you should work if you are sick?
  
  You'd move to short and long term disability? Make that a right I guess, better yet, unionize. That's why I have disability full pay as an option. The union.
  It makes more sense than infinite sick days.
  Even without a union:
  https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-sickness.html
  But like, make it 100% not half pay. Why punish sick people?
  
  I think if you're sick and don't have paid time off you should be allowed to vomit and diarrhea into your boss's mouth.
  Once that happens once or twice they'll understand the importance of paid sick time.
  Or we'll learn they have a really unsettling kink.
In the Netherlands its like 2 years
- In Germany, employees with an approved sick note will receive 100% of their salary for up to six weeks, and after that will be paid 70% until fit to work.
  
  I think in NL its 1 year 100%, then 1 year 70%, after that I think the government takes over
I had a past employer tell employees in a group meeting that you should stay home when sick, because coming to work just spreads it around and has a worse impact on the whole team, and therefore the business. We all stood there thinking, "OK, that makes sense... so why are you not paying for sick days, again?"
It Is
- Until very very recently, not if you're a rail worker in the United States. And even now, not that much. The exploitative nature of our country's "work ethic" is beyond ridiculous.
  
  Why drill down to "rail worker"
  Sick pay isn't mandated by federal law. Only a few states mandate it.
  And fun fact only ~10 states require breaks in the work day. No federal law either.
It is in Russia. Up to 12 months. You just need to see a doctor every 2 weeks to prolong it.
I've had 3 paid sick days the past 2 jobs in a row, and I'm a senior developer. I make good money, but this is very much a country where you are not supposed to be sick.

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