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And your employer would be forced to pay your salary indefinitely? No wonder they seek to limit this. In Europe companies only pay for your sick leave for maybe
by Detrytus 3y ago
And your employer would be forced to pay your salary indefinitely? No wonder they seek to limit this. In Europe companies only pay for your sick leave for maybe 30 days, after that money start coming from social security fund (.I.e. you are paid by government)
- HenryBemis 3y ago"paid by your government" = we pay taxes and elect a government to manage those funds for many purposes, one of them is so when WE get sick (the taxpayers) OUR money take care of us. The money doesn't come from the government, it comes from the taxpayers. The governments are supposed to do what they promised to do with our money via their election peogrammes. (In an ideal world that is...)
- Detrytus 3y agoYes, if you want to be nitpicking then government money is tax money. However that means that cost of the sick leave is spread over the whole society and not a single company, or single manager’s budget, making it easier to accept for business owners. That’s why Europeans typically do not have to worry about being paid for sick leave, unlike Americans.
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah but it's not like the sick time is limited here in Europe. My colleagues in the US are often like "I won't call in sick because I have no sick days left". That's dangerous en counterproductive. Where the money comes from is a secondary issue.