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I've used this 3 years ago. I took 6 months off to conduct my own business. I also published a "choose your own adventure" game during that time: https://play.g
by soygul 7y ago
I've used this 3 years ago. I took 6 months off to conduct my own business. I also published a "choose your own adventure" game during that time: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soygul.crowner https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.soygul.cro...
Amazingly productive days. I must add that you don't get paid for the time off. It's just that you don't lose your employment status.
- riffraff 7y agooh, so it's not paid. Then I am surprised to say, there is the same thing in Italy ("aspettativa per avvio attività"), but oddly enough, only for public sector employees, up to 12 months. I am not sure many people make use of it, I would guess very, very few.
- LegitShady 7y agoSabbaticals can be useful be require a lot of planning and saving.
- toyg 7y agoAspettativa is subject to conditions, though (i.e. it can be denied).
- riffraff 7y agoRight, though I met a few people who made use of it for studying, so it's not super rare. It probably varies a lot from job to job.
- toyg 7y agoYeah, as everything with labor laws in Italy, it can be fiendishly complicated and vary dramatically from sector to sector, from year (of hiring) to year...
- TLightful 7y agoI would definitely use it. Save up a bit of money and then go and do whatever you like. What's not to like?
- riffraff 7y agoso would I, but I think the demographics of people who go into (most) public sector jobs and those who want to become entrepreneurs do not have a major overlap.
- timwaagh 7y agodoes the swedish system have sufficient protections in place so that unless your employer thinks the world of you, you won't be let go for 'valid reasons' shortly after just to set an example?
- sokoloff 7y agoHow would you write the law such that employees couldn’t take the leave then come back and abuse their employment knowing they were protected from being fired for ‘valid reasons’?
- timwaagh 7y agoits either a or b. both are fine as higher rates tend to compensate lack of protection. only if a pretends to be b is there a problem. i like clarity.
- Jolter 7y agoEmployees have that protection, regardless of whether they took a leave of absence or not. So it's not really a question that comes up.
- robert_foss 7y agoYou're not 'enployed at will' in Sweden. Meaning you can't be fired for no reason. In fact there is a very short list of valid reasons. Amongst them for example 'work shortage'. If you indeed are fired, you have first dibs if the company decides to hire someone new for a similar position, so firing someone for BS reasons isn't a productive way forward.
- tomschlick 7y agoThat seems like its very hard to get rid of mediocre employees.
- robert_foss 7y agoDon't promote them. Half of all employees are by definition mediocre firing them is not really a great solution.