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doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 days ago
I’m for better paid leave. But do companies pay it or is there a national fund? Because as someone who runs a very small nonprofit organization that feeds our community with a handful of employees, if three of them went out on paid leave and I had to pay them plus temporary replacements long term, we would go under. There’s a reason we don’t have more employees. We paid two people on long term leave last year for good reason, and we lost 65% of our savings.
But do companies pay it or is there a national fund?
Listen, I agree that people need time to have lunch and take shits.
But why are businesses forced to pay for these hours of idle labor? Shouldn’t we have the government assume the cost they’re imposing on private industry?
We should be privatizing the profits. We need socialize the losses. That’s the only way a business can actually function profitably.
Whatever works for Europe, let’s do that.
Eh, I’ve lived there a couple of times. They don’t have everything figured out.
Sure, that’s kind of a truism. But I really, really struggle to find one thing that the United States, as a nation, does better than, say Germany or the Netherlands.
I’ve lived in both Germany and the Netherlands, a year in each. I think you just see them with rose colored glasses. I have many criticisms but I’m not trying to tear anyone down. People love to tear the US down because we dominate the world in many ways.
That is true, but the United States is particularly bad on this issue. I would trade for the German or French paternity leave and healthcare systems in a heartbeat.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In a better country, your non-profit wouldn’t need to exist because it was a government service.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 days ago
We feed people with no strings attached. There are a million places where people who qualify can get help. But the guy who is working but he just had to replace his HVAC and has no money left, or maybe the lady whose transmission just went out and she has no money for food but doesn’t qualify for assistance - we help a lot of those people too. And we help people who would qualify for government aid, but we still don’t ask. We also serve community meals regularly and lots of people come from all income brackets. Most of the wealthier people who come are supporters.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And that’s wonderful. But you should all be government employees with access to full benefits. People shouldn’t have to worry about proving they qualify for the right to have access to food.
Food, shelter, healthcare, and clean water are human rights that should be guaranteed to anyone regardless of income, citizenship, criminal background, or anything else.