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"paid leave"
Why do I feel like they are taken out of op's vacation days?
We aren't all Americans
Because they are? A lot of places don't offer sick leave anymore. Sick days, bereavement days, vacation days, all come from the source. It's really only Millenials and older who get sick days.
I assume you're talking about the US ?
Some places. It's different from state to state.
Millennials get sick days?
Kind of a nothingburger comment but until i saw your comment i didn't even realise that was possible. The fact this is acceptable, or even legal in the united states is absurd
Yeah fortunately I don't work there anymore and work someplace that respects it's workers. Took a lot of time, luck, trial and error to get where I am now.
Damn. I was wondering why nobody mentioned it, but it is so normal to you (plural), that you don't bother.
That's crazy. For me it's an absolute affront to even suggest I should give up vacation days for being sick. In my country Germany (and probably all of Europe, maybe also Asia) you get a slip from your doctor and you stay home till you're better.
Paid. And nobody touches your vacation days. I'm just speechless.
When I was in the UK, you didn't even need a slip from the doctor, just told your employer you were sick and stayed home, because everyone understood it is simply better that way.
I can also stay home when sick without a doctor's note for up to three days, no questions asked. With pay and without using vacation days of course.
A doctor's note very well could be how it works in the US, none of us know because we'd be bankrupted by going to a doctor.
Same in latinamerica. The US dosen't even have the labor standards that third world countries have
Millennial here. Every office job I have worked has either had unlimited sick time or unlimited vacation. (Hourly contracting roles aside.)
I remember my company did this. We started with one week vacation, one week sick and they just made it two weeks pto one day
I don't work for that company anymore, now I work in a great workplace. But yeah, it happens.