Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch.
Snapz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This isn’t a meme, do it.
M - Mandatory
I - Indefinite
T - Term
C - Care (home-based for self/family)
H - (or) Hospitalization
The MITCH act is a guarantee for your employment, salary and relief from any required government service/appearance, for the duration of time required for you to fully heal and recover from injury/illness, in home or medical facility, while under the active care of a licensed physician.
P.s. And since we are requiring that doctor as well, we’re going to need to just offer universal healthcare for all as an add on, m’kay.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Don’t stop there.
My grandfather was at one point a regional manager for a coffee distributor. He got cancer. The company was self insured in such a way that they had to foot his medical bills. They did.
Post recovery, my grandfather describes his remaining time with the company as miserable. For example, they reassigned him to a notoriously bad region while not providing any relocation assistance. Expectation likely being that he would underperform as a remote manager for their worst region. He didn’t.
Following about six months of a toxic work experience, they took him out to dinner to let him know in public that his role was being discontinued. He wasn’t being fired, but he’d be required to accept a demotion into a sales position if he wanted to stay. He did not stay.
Decades later, one of the C-suite members retire. My gramps was close with this guy, who could not speak “off the record.” The guy said that C-suite had it out for gramps, viciously so. They wanted him to quit, because they knew that cancer often comes back. They did not want to pay another set of medical bills, so they made gramps life miserable to try avoiding the potential expense.
So, how do you protect people like my gramps in this situation?
Your solution is still better than nothing, but it should go further.
bilb@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Yet another reason to be dissatisfied with employer provided health insurance. They want to be the provider of health insurance coverage so that its availability can be used as leverage against workers, and if you need to actually use in any significant way you’ll be punished.
psivchaz@reddthat.com 4 days ago
That sucks. Yet somehow it seems like one of the better outcomes in America. I feel like now they’d just find some reason to fire the person or lay them off and thus not cover the medical bills to begin with. Hell, my wife was fired during the maternity leave the company offered because she actually took it rather than I guess just being so grateful that she worked through it.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 3 days ago
Thats why employer provided health insurance is a bad idea
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Even without, employers if unregulated may see any longterm treatment that takes you out of work as a liability purely for the costs to keep them on payroll.
Unionization or worker-owned corporations could overcome this. Ideally both, as the same time.