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Therobohour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait,you guys don’t get that? Shit I’m.here in Northern Ireland and that would be less than standard. That’s what we give teenagers,hell,most teens would not take that deal. When did America start treating the worker so bad? Like 1865?
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Therobohour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yea everyone knows how that great socialist state of ireland
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
we never stopped. One week vacation per year is considered a perk at most jobs that offer it.
Therobohour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One week? Do you get like 46 days of bank holiday?
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I don’t know how many banking holidays there are but they typically are only observed by people working at banks… Personally speaking, I’ve never had a job that gave holidays off, but I also never had a job that gave vacation time, even though some of them said they did on paper.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, it’s usually somewhere between 5 and 12 and none of them are mandatory.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You have 32h/week as a standard?
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yeah its slowly becoming the standard
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That’s awesome! I was actually looking into moving to Ireland (not the TERF-island part tho). Sadly their trans healthcare is also sub par.
Therobohour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your sexuality is not a personality
Therobohour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well full time is 36plus i think
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Legally, I get 1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours worked. And this is a pro-worker state, most states don’t mandate any sick leave at all.
Therobohour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
1 hour of sick a week ? That doesn’t make sense, you can’t plan being sick. How does that work? What if your sick fir one hour and ten minutes
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
The way paid time off works in WA is that it goes into a fund that you get paid out of for missing work. So, a minimum of one hour of wages gets added to the pot for every full week of work.
I go to therapy weekly, so I can choose to either take my PTO to cover the hour I miss each week, or I can choose to save it for when I actually get sick. Hypothetically, I could also save it for a vacation, but I’m not bougie enough to take a vacation.
Therobohour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Everyone deserves a holiday
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
32h work week?
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
America was built on treating the worker badly. Most of the first people that came here were either slaves or indentured servants. Now we have prison slavery and wage servitude.
The only thing that has ever really improved in American labor is actual safety standards for work environments, equipment, etc. We do a great job of prioritizing that. But actual workers are viewed as expendable, and many of the largest employers are just meat grinders even if they offer half-decent benefits. Walmart is a good example of that
Therobohour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s such a bummer when I hear about the burial lack of workers rights over there. How is there not mass migration to Europe?
shikitohno@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Because, for many people, it’s not all that easy to get the requisite visas to go to Europe legally. As it stands now, I’m pretty sure I’m the only person in my household of 3 who has a few options to get skilled work visas based on my work experience. In another few years, when we’ve all finished our degrees, we’re looking at making the leap.
For other people, they might already have put down roots that hold them back before considering what a raw deal they’re getting. Even if someone can qualify to emigrate, significant others, kids or property can make it more difficult for them to decide to go for it.
And, of course, you have plenty of folks who drink too deeply of the Kool-Aid, and believe Fox News when they say Europe is overrun by communist governments that implement Sharia law in their gulags, and force you to be gay to hit the national quotas.
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Many of the people who would have been criminalized for minor things like smoking cannabis to cope with the horrific work culture and thus are ineligible for work visas to most of the world. Many of those with the resources to do so have bought into the system and don’t know what the rest of the world is like, and there’s another group who just think the US is swell and everyone else is jealous of us and trying to come here.