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Wait... You guys don't even have paid sick leave....?
Most states don't have mandatory sick leave, and there is no federal requirement. Here in WA we just got it in 2018. Before that it was up to each employer to decide if they wanted to offer it.
We have to use PTO for normal sick days and file for short-term disability for illness that lasts weeks or a few months. And if you have a job without those benefits you get nothing.
The U.S. tied its Healthcare to employers to keep its citizens slaves to corporate America.
And people get shamed for using it.
Its how wages have stayed so stagnant for 20 years.
cause people cant fight or leave, cause their healthcare depends on it.. especially if they have a very ill spouse/child
and they've taken so long to implement the 15 dollar minimum wage, that by the time its fully rolled out it will just be the new 7.25 with all the buying power it'll have with inflation and everything else, so nothing will fundamentally change for anyone.
Freedom to work while you're sick!
Yeah, but all the millions of the temporarily-embarrassed future multi-millionaires side with the obscenely parasitic rich, because my word, they might be part of the parasitic class too some day, and just imagine if a fraction of their wealth were to go toward someone getting reasonable health care coverage w/o being tied to a business, or having decent sick leave!
I had to explain to my teenage son why I had to keep going to work when I broke my toe last year. And that was basically it. Lol