Workers in California will soon receive a minimum of five days of paid sick leave annually, instead of three, under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wednesday.
The law, which takes effect in January, also increases the amount of sick leave workers can carry over into the following year. Newsom said it demonstrates that prioritizing the health and well-being of workers “is of the utmost importance for California’s future.”
“Too many folks are still having to choose between skipping a day’s pay and taking care of themselves or their family members when they get sick,” Newsom said in a statement announcing his action.
Meanwhile my colleague managed to get 40 days paid leave + 30 days paid vacation last year. We’re in Germany. Now you say: nice for him. But not really. Someone had to do all the work he couldn’t do in those 40 sick days.
Edit: to make myself clearer. He was sick on mondays or fridays usually/conveniently.
Edit2: seems I must’ve missed that im on /c/antiwork here. Excuse me for careing about my job and getting mad about people making my life difficult.
That’s not his problem. The company shouldn’t be running on a skeleton crew. I imagine he didn’t choose to be sick for those 40 days?
Well said. People don’t seem to understand that running at 100% capacity and workload is not the natural state of things. Humans aren’t machines (and even mining rigs and other machining equipment don’t chug at 100%, more like 70% as to not reduce lifespan)
Just because you can work with multiple employees being absent does not mean you should be keeping that status quo and not hire more people to alleviate the burden on the team.
It was always on a Friday or Monday coincidentally.
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Eh it really depends on the company. I’m in the US and once took an entire month (only went in each Friday) off just because I had the time saved up, and my boss at the time was wicked cool.
Things like this law are not aimed at people like me and your friend that are able to accumulate that much time off.
30 days Vacation is the general rule at my company. 40 days of being sick on mondays or fridays however is not.
If working hard because someone takes off work because they are sick maybe you should take off Tuesday Wednesday so you don’t feel over worked or maybe see if the company can hire enough people so that if one person doesn’t show up it doesn’t put an unreasonable amount of work onto you. This is a you and the company problem not this coworker using their sick time problem.