Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.

• froh42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Over here in Germany there’s no sick pay when you’re self employed, but there is (by law) when you are an employee.

  I had been self employed from my 20s to 50s and am an employee for 6 years now.

  I was in hospital last week to get my back fixed and am on sick leave for 4-6 weeks now. It’s still fucking amazing to me, that I can heal up now and will still get my payment into my account end of the month.

  Having things like that written into law is amazing.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Must be nice…

    coughs up a bloody lung diseased with covid

    'Scuse me while I go work my job assisting the elderly and disabled.

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    • froh42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ah fuck I hate that, when people go to work sick and infect everyone else. (Yes I understand you need to, and it’s not your fault. So I hate your boss.)

      The history is interesting, we got health insurance and paid leave in the 1880s from Bismarck. He was trying to appease workers so they won’t flock to the socialist or social democrat parties which were booming at that time. At the same time Bismarck outlawed left wing parties. (It was a stick and carrot approach).

      In 1969 we had a bipartisan left - right government (“great coalition”) and they put up to 6 weeks of paid sick leave into. law.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ll be sure to do that the next time i’m making these decisions.

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• Sc00ter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My job offers time off. Its 1 bucket of time off. If you want more time off, you have to work more OT to “offset” it

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