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In my country in Europe, I've never seen anything less than 5 weeks paid leave, but I believe 4 weeks is minimum required by law. Oh, plus holidays. In fact, you get paid extra during vacation as a sentiment to actually take that rest and recover some strength. Burnout is a big issue in today's society so the vacation is a national investment.
2 weeks vacation for the whole year isn't enough. Not nearly. ๐
In Canada you only get 4 weeks after you have worked for the same company/organization for ten years. You only get 3 weeks after 5 years.
Get a new job after 8 years? Start all over with 2 weeks vacation.
Dang. Not moving to Canada then. I thought Canada was almost kind of like the EU with working laws but I guess it's closer to the US in that regard.
That's a terrible system though. It almost forces you to stay with a company once you've started. Gives unbalanced power to the employers over the workers.
Yeah it's pretty shit. My province only recently made it a requirement to provide a minimum of 5 paid sick days to full time staff due to COVID.
Part timers I believe only get 3 / year.
Canada is the middleman for everything on the scale of the States being far to one side of the scale and EU being the opposite side, Canada usually sits somewhere in the middle.
Man, 5 sick days wouldn't begin to cover it for me with two kids in preschool. They get sick so often.
We get unlimited sick days as long as it's not more than a week of consecutive illness, in which case you just need a doctor's note I believe. Maybe there are more restrictions, but in case it's just regular illnesses like colds and stomach flus and stuff like that, it's fine, as those are common when you have kids.
As an example, I worked about 25 days from the beginning of October until middle of January, all due to me having colds and my kids having various spouts of illnesses, plus holiday vacation. ๐
The median household income is $80k which means about half of households make significantly less than that. Does that help you examine your privilege and give you some perspective?
Embedded contract work. A lot of places have seen the benefits of keeping a small labor pool and expanding capacity with contract workers only when needed. It's a lot cheaper to contract a person to work for a year and have them figure out their vacation and benefits than it is to hire an employee you need to keep on. You can terminate the contract at anytime, no severance pay. They need to figure out coverage for their vacation and if they can't it's their problem. Same with them being sick, the contract says they'll find someone to fill that position. If they get injured it doesn't reflect on your insurance. Plus they need the job so they stay on year to year. You can even contract them for less the next year, can't do that to an employee.
I was a physical therapist working in skilled nursing. I had 2 weeks, but it was pooled time. So if I ever got sick, it came from there. We were "encouraged" to take PTO if our census was low to "maintain" our eligibility for our health care. We had 3 paid holidays, but we also had to negotiate within our department to work the Sunday before or the Saturday afer.
This is a position which requires a doctorate degree ($103,000 in 2014), sitting for a board exam, and a state based license. We were basically the top of the hierarchy at the facility, and that's how we were treated. The CNA's had a literally shit job, and made about the same pay as if they worked at McDonalds (and less than if they worked at Costco).