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KevonLooney@lemm.ee 6 months agoWorkers 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.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I have never worked anywhere in the United States with a policy like that. It may be your experience but it’s certainly not the norm.
shikitohno@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Pretty sure they are saying that if you have 10 days PTO and you use one of them when sick, you no longer get a full two weeks’ vacation as you’ll have an uncovered day. With a full 10 days, I could clock out Friday evening, get on a flight to my vacation destination, catch a return flight the afternoon of the 19th and be back to work on the 20th. With only 9, I either need to work until next Monday and get on the plane that night, or cut my vacation short to fly back in the 16th and work the 17th. You effectively lose up to 3 whole days of downtime on vacation for being unable to work due to illness once a year.