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oce@jlai.lu 10 months agoThere has to be some limit for the company. Let’s forget a minute about big evil corporation and take a little local company that hire a new person that is needed to run the shop. If this person is absent unlimited and you don’t have the funds to hire a replacement, should you just close the shop? It doesn’t mean we can put an arbitrary limit on sickness but rather than at some point the company have the liberty to let you go if you can’t fulfil your part of the contract anymore in the forsable future. It doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a system to help the sick person recover, but maybe that’s not the company’s job past a certain time, and rather the role of social/health insurance.
Yeah, this is why in many countries, Australia included, part of parental leave is paid by the state (it’s at minimum wage), and the company isn’t required to pay anything extra (but must let you take leave).
Most employers however, are much more generous than this to attract talent.
b0gl@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Here in Sweden your workplace will pay 80% of your salary for the first 7 days, and then if you are still sick, you need to get a doctor’s note and then the state will pay you instead.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
this is extremely sensible and reasonable
jflorez@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
This is what a well implemented democratic socialism gets you (The Nordic model)
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
it’s Social Democratic but ye
ARk@lemm.ee 10 months ago
B-But why should my taxpayer money go to the welfare of my fellow people /s
Clipboards@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is a very elegant solution, but unfortunately it’s a productive use of our tax dollars so we’ll never do that here in the U.S.