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I have not seen anything about 90 sick-days in any contract with an employer ever, even when I was still a regular 'waged' employee. Even if you get serious il

I have not seen anything about 90 sick-days in any contract with an employer ever, even when I was still a regular 'waged' employee. Even if you get serious ill your employer has to pay, so from what I know, employers need to insure themselves against this. Only after 2 years are they off the hook and will people be transferred to disability pay if required. In some sense, discussing about 90 days vs. 'unlimited' sick days is not really relevant. 90 days would feel like unlimited to me as a regular healthy employee anyway. But to be very clear, in NL we don't have these 90 days of sick leave. We don't have a budget as an employee for sick leave.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
> I have not seen anything about 90 sick-days in any contract with an employer ever, even when I was still a regular 'waged' employee Have you checked your national insurance conditions? In Austria this also isn't in any employment contract because it's ratified in the national health insurance agreement everyone working here must have, which limits everyone to 90 days sick leave but many people don't know this and think they have "unlimited" sick leave. IIRC, Poland and Germany also have 90 days of sick leave by law. Maybe you're not fully aware of it but I'd assume your national health insurance will specify a similar threshold by law that's obviously not in your employment contract.
- louwrentius 4y ago
  Forget about the 90 days, it doesn’t apply to NL. https://dutchreview.com/expat/sick-leave-netherlands/ https://dutchreview.com/expat/sick-leave-netherlands/ The two years I mentioned are right.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    That's pretty good. I guess Austria just wants to be employer heaven.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    From the link you posted, I find this baffling that this is allowed in Europe. >Some Dutch workplaces include “no-pay waiting days” (loonvrije wachtdagen) — these are the first one or two days of your sickness where the employer is not obliged to pay wages.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

> I have not seen anything about 90 sick-days in any contract with an employer ever, even when I was still a regular 'waged' employee Have you checked your national insurance conditions? In Austria this also isn't in any employment contract because it's ratified in the national health insurance agreement everyone working here must have, which limits everyone to 90 days sick leave but many people don't know this and think they have "unlimited" sick leave. IIRC, Poland and Germany also have 90 days of sick leave by law. Maybe you're not fully aware of it but I'd assume your national health insurance will specify a similar threshold by law that's obviously not in your employment contract.

louwrentius 4y ago
Forget about the 90 days, it doesn’t apply to NL. https://dutchreview.com/expat/sick-leave-netherlands/ https://dutchreview.com/expat/sick-leave-netherlands/ The two years I mentioned are right.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  That's pretty good. I guess Austria just wants to be employer heaven.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  From the link you posted, I find this baffling that this is allowed in Europe. >Some Dutch workplaces include “no-pay waiting days” (loonvrije wachtdagen) — these are the first one or two days of your sickness where the employer is not obliged to pay wages.