• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    What if I told you that it usually also takes away from your vacation days?

    So if you get sick too often, no vacation for you that year.

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      3 months ago

      That’s sick (pun intended). Over here it’s the other way around: When we get sick during a vacation, we get the vacation days back.

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        3 months ago

        Although, at least in my field of work, it’s a bit frowned upon to actually get your vacation days back when you get sick.

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          It really shouldn’t. My company has reprimanded people for not responding their vacation days. The law is very clear on this and courts have stated as well: vacations are meant for recovering your energy. Healing from an illness does not allow you to recover from work, so you must be granted that time again.

          Only a refreshed worker is a productive worker.

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      3 months ago

      My sick days and PTO are the same. I have a chronic illness I’m working with doctors to treat. Between occasional sick days, and doctors visits, I never get a vacation day

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            3 months ago

            How inconsiderate of you, think of the billionaires who would suffer!

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          3 months ago

          I’ve worked at companies that do both. There are pros and cons to each. Sick days are usually not paid out if your employment ends. But if you just have PTO, that would be paid out.

          The worst of all is so called unlimited PTO.

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            3 months ago

            There are pros and cons to each. Sick days are usually not paid out if your employment ends. But if you just have PTO, that would be paid out.

            I get why you consider “getting more money” a pro, but in my book any financial incentive to avoid taking a sick day when you are actually sick and instead try to power through and infect everyone in the office should be considered as con.

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That’s not the case in the UK, your annual leave is a legal entitlement, and unrelated to any sick time you may have to take.

      The workers of your nation need to organise a few general strikes to get their basic rights sorted out, I don’t like seeing workers abused.