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Can you elaborate more on how the UK's workers rights are "literally worse than the US"? I would say things like statutory sick pay, mandatory holiday allowance
by ideksec 3y ago
Can you elaborate more on how the UK's workers rights are "literally worse than the US"? I would say things like statutory sick pay, mandatory holiday allowance, protection from unfair dismissal and the right to uninterrupted breaks are all pretty progressive compared to the States.
- iLoveOncall 3y agoThere is no worker protection for the first 2 years of your employment with a company, so you're essentially an at will employee (worse actually, you have less rights and still need to give notice). You also have only laughable unemployment benefits (£85 per week), that don't depend on your contributions.
- ideksec 3y agoAgain, completely untrue. Automatic unfair dismissal does not have a minimum tenure to be applicable. Here [1] is a handy list of protections that do not require two years. You've also conveniently ignored all the other benefits in that list that are not available in the US. You've already been corrected by someone else on the unemployment benefits so I'll not waste time repeating that. The UK has a lot of problems, but downplaying workers rights in comparison to the states is a strange hill to die on. 1) https://www.tribunalclaim.com/unfair-dismissal/automatic-unfair-dismissal/ https://www.tribunalclaim.com/unfair-dismissal/automatic-unf...