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>specially for the US: introduce unlimited paid sick time, just like every other Western country already has. How about ANY mandatory PTO/Sick time at all? Th
by runamok 2y ago
>specially for the US: introduce unlimited paid sick time, just like every other Western country already has.
How about ANY mandatory PTO/Sick time at all?
This pisses me off every time I think of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
I think there are only 5 countries with as little legally mandated leave as the US (aka 0): Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau.
- abduhl 2y agoThis wikipedia article is out of date ("There is no federal or state statutory minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays. Paid leave is at the discretion of the employers to their employees."). Illinois law now mandates paid leave: https://labor.illinois.gov/faqs/paidleavefaq.html https://labor.illinois.gov/faqs/paidleavefaq.html So, the ground is shifting on this in the USA, at least at the state level.
- runamok 2y agoThat's some good news and way overdue.
- smileysteve 2y agoPpp would have been a perfect time and mechanism to employ mandatory universal sick time; only forgive the loans if employers could post a "bond" showing they had accounted for sick time per employee. But the US didn't connect many useful strings.
- mschuster91 2y ago> But the US didn't connect many useful strings. It couldn't, structurally not. In the EU a lot is already harmonized by EU law, but in the US? Congress has been gridlocked for decades now thanks to (predominantly Republican) obstructionism and the states can't be arsed to work on constitutional amendments either. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_labour_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_labour_law