From the point of view of the Owners, the US is leading and the rest of the world has a lot of catching up to do.
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Canada actually has paid sick leave for a few years now. If I remember correctly, it’s federally mandated 10 paid sick days and 3 paid personal days.
Unfortunately, that’s at the federal level. Private companies are beholden to the provincial employment laws. A good example is Ontario, which had paid sick days but was repealed in 2018.
I often forget how bad my country folk have it in some places. I'm going to doxx myself a bit here.
I'm a service member in Canada. In my first 5 years of service I received 20 payed annual leave days. After 5 years of service I received 25. At a later date I will receive thirty.
I get every single federal holiday as well as provincial holiday for the province I'm posted to.
At any given time I can request up to 2 days of sick leave/mental health days without a doctor's note. After that I can be given any number of days off signed by a doctor.
If I have a death in the immediate family I can receive 7 days or more of grievance and compassionate leave authorised by a chaplain or my commanding officer.
Further to this, I get 100% dental coverage,my family gets 85%. I get $80k to go to university, $10k for professional development or college courses as well as a whole plethora of other benefits like free eye exams and subsidised glasses.
I want this for all of my countrymen. My (often conservative) countrymen do not want this for themselves. Why? The fact I get all this shows that the Canadian Government is willing to give these benefits to any Canadian. But they don't. Why?
I get these benefits because I was too young and dumb to do anything with my life but join the army?
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As someone else mentioned, that doesn't cover everyone. It benefits "federally regulated employees"; but it's a good start.
BC NDP premiere John Horgan (RIP) gave all workers five paid sick days after Covid. Every province should.
Edit: fixed my mistake.
in defense of canada we are their closest competition so its natural for them to get a bit lazy.
But renaming mountains and bodies of water are going to solve all of that, our orange god king told us so.
/s if it’s not obvious
Canada, at least ontario, doesn't have paid vacation for reg hourly workers. 4% comes of our cheque's into our own vacation fund. If you dont use it, you get it back at the end of the year. (6% if over 5 years as you get a 3rd week)
Yeah but what's the price of eggs in those countries?
Checkmate, libs 😎
I believe only France is more expensive when adjusted.
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UK has free college? Is that a joke?
Depending on your age, it is free. Need to slap some asterisks on the image with some sub notes.
Usually yanks seem to think that UK=England. For this narrative it would seem that the UK=Scotland
This is kinda misleading 'cause it portraits the UK as a Paradise and, well... Is the UK.
(Although, compared to USA, The UK is indeed a Paradise)
Yeah but freedom. Americans are free from the burden of all these social constructs /s
Why is the British flag the pre-1801 one?
Because they're regressing.
While we're being meta: Why is it sorted randomly?
Because Ireland is an independent nation and representing a former colony that you committed genocide against on your flag, coat of arms, and list of noble titles in 2025 is ghoulish.
(It's definitely not that but wouldn't that be nice)
It's likely we need a general strike to fight for these rights. May 1st 2028 would be good based on the UAW initiative to coordinate contacts to expire at the same time
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/organized-labor-may-day-2028_n_662aaa84e4b01a688b3e423f
I guess northern ireland just doesnt exist according to the UK flag
That isn't the UK flag.
I know, that's the point of my comment
Ah, well, right, carry on.
The bottom 3 are all a thing in the US lol. I have a coworker getting 6 months paid maternity leave.
This meme is looking at the worst employment situations and represents the entire country as that. Cuz every day we just gotta be like "America bad".
It's bad enough without overdramatizing things.
Idk, your argument sounds similar to me to saying "look at the success of these 6 billionaires! Why are you judging our country by our bottom 40%!?"
Every working person in BC under the Employment Standards Act gets at least 5 days paid sick leave and 2 weeks paid vacation. If you have to get lucky with the right job to get benefits I don't think you can lay claim to them as a country.
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I'm not well versesd in the laws of the other countries listed in this post, but i think the inplication is that the governments mandate all the paid time off. You're coworker has maternity leave because the company you work for offers it.
If the worst employment situations don't include paid time off, then that proves it's not mandatory for workers in the US to have.
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