• EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Why do you even have an allocation of sick days? It’s not really a concept anywhere I’ve worked (in the UK).

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      1 year ago

      I’m in the US and I get 3 paid sick days a year. Anything more and I don’t get paid PLUS I get a point. After 8 points I lose my job. We come to work sick unless we are in the hospital.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I work in Spain, we don’t have sick days. If the doctor says we are not apt to work, we take a leave intil the doctor says so. Indefinitely. No maximum. As long as the doctor says.

        This limit thing is so weird. Yeah, you can use them as vacation of you are healthy but that’s an abuse and then when you need them you will be vulnerable without days. It’s better to have infinite days, to be used only when you are actually sick, as stated by your doctor.

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          1 year ago

          Indefinitely. No maximum. As long as the doctor says

          I work in Spain, happen to be on sick leave/disability, and that’s not exactly correct:

          • The doctor can only authorize 365 days of paid sick leave
          • After that, you get back to your company’s health insurer (“mutua”) who has 180 days of paid sick leave to either:
            • Treat you until you’re healed (or claim you’re healed) and put you back to work (if you refuse, you get fired)
            • Grant you permanent disability

          If the insurer decides that you’re healed, you can’t go back onto a sick leave for the same reason for… I think it’s 6 months.

          • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Right right, if your leave is longer than a year the permanent inability (incapacidad permanente, diferente a una discapacidad) cards pop up, since chances are you will never be able to be able to return to the same work you did, like an ernia for a driver and so on.

            In any case, people taking a year long leave is kind of rare and it’s practically limitless compared to the 2-30 days the other mentioned countries get.

            Good luck with your situation.

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        1 year ago

        (edit - i live in the us) i can purchase extra insurance for short-term and for long-term sick leave.

        right now, i have ten days of paid time off for whatever reason per year (no explicit sick leave) and i pay about $650 a month for insurance which covers very little for myself and my kids until i have spent at least $6000 on any one of us or $15000 for all of us together. i make about $50k a year before tax and insurance.

        and our compensation package (paid time off and insurance) is considered pretty good for my area.

        i could buy better insurance and short and long term leave, but this would cost about half of what i make. unfortunately, half of what i make already goes to rent.