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> Overtime/holiday pay You are severely misinformed if you believe these to be mandated by law. Also missing from US law: parental leave and sick days. None of
by sli 7y ago
> Overtime/holiday pay
You are severely misinformed if you believe these to be mandated by law. Also missing from US law: parental leave and sick days. None of these things are mandated, they are purely up to individual companies to optionally provide, which just isn't good enough in the rest of the world.
- Fjolsvith 7y ago> You are severely misinformed if you believe these to be mandated by law. The US Department of Labor says they are: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/overtimepay https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/overtimepay
- Fjolsvith 7y ago> Also missing from US law: parental leave. which just isn't good enough in the rest of the world. So, I checked, and out of the 193 countries in the world, only 41 mandate parental leave. [1] 1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/16/u-s-lacks-mandated-paid-parental-leave/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/16/u-s-lacks-m...
- ginko 7y agoYou're misreading the article. This is out of a 41 country sample by the OECD. A lot more countries actually implement parental leave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#By_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#By_country And even so. Do you want the US to be ranked together with developed nations or places like Papua New Guinea and ... Huh, turns out that's the only other country listed besides the US that has no paid maternity leave.
- viklove 7y agoWhat's this then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_of_1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_o...