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Sick days (lemmings.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 33 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

NZ: We're legally entitled to 10 days paid sick leave. If you're out for less than 3 consecutive days you can be asked for a medical certificate but your employer must pay for it. Even then I've never been asked for a medical cert.

this is an American problem I'm guessing

ETA: We've also got huge brain drain problems thanks to the 3 ring circus govt atm. So we could use a little immigration

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    In belgium we used to have 3 days of no-doctor-note sick leave for single days, but they were afraid of people taking it as an extra vacation day so it's been reduced to 2 now.

    Sick leave with note is just errr not limited afaik though the social system does take over from your employer in terms of paying you for prolonged sickness.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    The thing is that it was shown that those no-doctor-note days actually reduced the amount of sick days, even when used for things other than sickness.

    Because if you drank too much the day before and can't come into work because of a hangover. You only need 1 day to recover. But if you need to get a sick note anyway, you might as well get one for an entire week.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    We're legally entitled to 10 days paid sick leave

    Sorry but still not good enough. I don't plan out when I am going to be sick in the coming year or how many days it'll take me.

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