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dutchkimble@lemy.lol 5 months agoIn India, in such a case we’d typically allow infinite “work from home” leave, assigning the kind of work that he could do without time crunches etc, the medical insurance for employees typically cover families too but if required we’d provide financial support above the insurance to a decent extent but not unlimited for the medical care of the daughter, and unless the guy was a massive cunt, possibly even then, his peers would voluntarily help out sometimes with babysitting or odd jobs etc if he was a single dad. This is all if it was a private business.
With poetic exaggeration -if it was a government job, the guy already has infinite leaves because our government employees just don’t work anyway, unless he does something horrendous like a murder he won’t be fired and he’ll have free but not great medical services available.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I’m honestly having a hard time believing this.
What “work from home” kind of work without time crunches can teachers do? How many teachers work for private businesses?
How many government employed teachers just don’t do any work - to the extent no one would notice if they didn’t show up?
In Australia, sure in a small mum and dad type business the guy wouldn’t be fired, but most businesses couldn’t actually afford to pay the guy to take extended personal leave. Most businesses would do their best to give the guy unlimited unpaid leave, but that’s not a given. People would usually take personal income protection insurance to cover this type of thing.
I’m just not sure what people really expect in this type of situation. For a small or medium business infinite paid leave just isn’t viable.
Even if work from home was possible it’s not necessarily appropriate here. The guy wants to spend time with his daughter. Working from home is not spending time with your daughter, that would be pretending to work from home.