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d21lewis on 24 September 2010
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SamuelRSmith said:
d21lewis said:
SamuelRSmith said:
d21lewis said:

That really does suck.  I don't know what to say.  Are they still going to let you work while you heal?  If not, what are you going to do to stay afloat for the next six weeks?


I don't want to go all European on you... but do you guys not have sick pay?

It depends on where you work.  I have two weeks of vacation time every year, incredible discounts on medication and heatlthcare, and over 100 hours of sick time that I can use (my last job, I had ove 300 hours!).  But I can't just assume everybody has the same benefits.


Haha, in the UK, we can assume that everybody does get the same benefits, well, to a minimum (£80 a week for up to 28 weeks, most employers offer around 10 days of full pay - as an aside, my dad's firm offers duvet days, they come out of your 10 days sickness, but you won't be fired if you're not ill - if you're a healthy person, you can get the 10 days off, anyways - vacation pay is legal minimum of  28 days)

*buys plane ticket to Europe*

Not turning this into a debate over who has the better what (we already know the answer) but most decent jobs here offer extended medical leave, leave if somebody in the immediate family has an illness (my fiance took a year off when my daughter was having seizures several times a day back in 2002), and some sort of program to help those who are disabled.  Plus, getting injured on the job is pretty much guaranteed workman's compensation.  My aunt who died two years ago had a boyfriend who was notorious for getting hired and getting hurt on the job.  He got several hundred thousand for severly hurting his on his last job (it took a few years, though.).  She died of a medication overdose (she had Parkinson's disease) right before he got his huge payoff......sometimes, I think he murdered her but there's no way we can prove it.  But anyway, on topic, there's lots of programs here to help people who are sick.

There's too many programs to help people that are lazy, too.