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[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

If it’s unpaid, not a chance I am getting a doctors note. Although, what kind of dystopian country doesn’t have paid sick days?

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Undeveloped societies can be like that. It's often places that don't have many rights for the citizens and are worse off in wealth then the pre French Revolution France. Basically peasants with smart phones given this day and age.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

America has an employment policy called "at-will" which grants employees and employers the right to terminate employment at any time for any "legal" reason. (This can be abused and skewed in favor of the employer)

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

I’ve never understood any worker defending this. It’s disgusting.

Literal decades of propaganda and scapegoating got us here... I don't know how we are supposed to find our way back to reason

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Which started and was pushed as an anti-union thing, much like ‘right to work’ which is a state-wide rule that says you can work somewhere with a union without joining said union - which increases number of workers for less pay, weakens the union itself via lost dues and bargaining leverage, and encourages rhetoric against organized collective bargaining.

[-] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

A part of my salary is determined by the number of hours i bill my customer, so a sick day could easily mean that I lose somewhere in the range of $100 - $200. And I don't even live in the USA.

[-] Kraiden@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

NZ: We're legally entitled to 10 days paid sick leave. If you're out for less than 3 consecutive days you can be asked for a medical certificate but your employer must pay for it. Even then I've never been asked for a medical cert.

this is an American problem I'm guessing

ETA: We've also got huge brain drain problems thanks to the 3 ring circus govt atm. So we could use a little immigration

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Aussie here, paid sick leave but i've had employers ask for a certificate

I've never given them one. I'm a fucking adult you're employing

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

I'm a fucking adult you're employing

Exactly right. This isn't elementary school. I'd hand them an obvious forgery signed "Barney Piccolo's Mother."

[-] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

We're legally entitled to 10 days paid sick leave

Sorry but still not good enough. I don't plan out when I am going to be sick in the coming year or how many days it'll take me.

[-] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In belgium we used to have 3 days of no-doctor-note sick leave for single days, but they were afraid of people taking it as an extra vacation day so it's been reduced to 2 now.

Sick leave with note is just errr not limited afaik though the social system does take over from your employer in terms of paying you for prolonged sickness.

[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

we got 2 weeks. boss noticed a friday/monday pattern. well duh

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I had my first real sickness for time off since I moved to Germany. I had a call with a doctor, they pushed a sick note into the digital health system, and my company noted it as paid time off.

Modern civilization in a developed nation rocks.

Now if we could just get the paperwork to die down a bit... Oh, and find a way to get the trains on time!

[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

Me, as someone living in the US, reading this, thinking you are living in the Jetsons timeline 😳

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

IIRC George Jetson was canonically born in 2022.

So... we ARE living in the Jetsons timeline... you and I were just born in the Jetsons slums.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

I actually did this during fucking Corona, and I still do it often, literally until they drive me away, because I'm that afraid of being accused of dodging work.

They brought it on themselves, I suppose.

[-] Creegz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately they won't see the consequences either because everyone will get sick and keep coming in, when the owner(s) can just dip out and take a personal day.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

We are a small company. Productivity absolutely dips.

[-] Creegz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It dips when you're sick, it will dip further when half of a department is sick. It's better to protect everybody else and take a hit for a day or two than spend weeks with people passing around an illness back and forth with reduced productivity.

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