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Americans are hired at-will, with barely any job protection, where as Europeans received far more protection and regulations governing paid time off, universal
by say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
Americans are hired at-will, with barely any job protection, where as Europeans received far more protection and regulations governing paid time off, universal healthcare and so forth. You're not being paid as much as Americans in Europe but you're also treated far more humanely. I think the question isn't how to increase wages in Europe but how to get the rest of the world to adopt Sweden's labor laws, assuming it has the most progressive ones. I'm an American who would gladly accept Swedish rates with Swedish benefits.
- esoterica 6y agoTaking a $200k pay cut to get a couple weeks of extra vacation, government healthcare (which is only a marginal upgrade if you already have high quality private insurance) and better job security seems like a raw deal to me.