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Yrt@feddit.de 6 months agoYeah, but you still have to pay social taxes on top for every worker. That’s why salary and labour cost are two different things. And boy is it a difference in Germany.
Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 6 months ago
And as far as I’ve been led to believe, workers in the USA will be bullied into not taking any time off. Germans will take their entitled holidays and use sick leave when they are sick.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Workers in the US may not even have sick time. They do make more money though, probably because lots of European tech workers come to the US for better pay.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In practice anyone with this salary is going to have at least 2 weeks + 10 or so federal holidays. It’s the retail and factory folks who are hurt most there.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Vacation time is not sick time. If you want any type of vacation at all, you need to plan ahead of time. Offering only 2 weeks is a joke. If you get sick one day, you lose one week of vacation.
Monitoring and rationing sick time is like limiting bathroom breaks or coffee time. if your job does it, you have a crappy employer.